In March, I began working with two (relatively) young tech entrepreneurs
in the Ukraine. Aside from their technical dominance with hard
problems, they offered some amazing social consciousness examples from
their own lives/culture.
In particular, about 4 years ago (they claim), the people (mostly
middle/professional class) decided collectively (how did they negotiate
this? Social/commercial media? ???) to put an end to the corruption of
their bureaucracies. They collectively decided/agreed to quit paying
bribes to get things done. They recognized that if they did not pay
bribes, then those who were in their positions specifically *to* profit
in that manner would go away pretty fast. According to them, it worked.
The Ukraine is a small and agile nation compared to the ageing behemoth
that is the USA, so maybe this really can't work here, but I *liked* the
spirit. You don't bribe people to quit accepting bribes, for example,
you cut them off at the pockets.
What about a pledge to "vote for the guy/gal with the *least* financial
support" or following Obama's funding demographic, "vote for the guy/gal
whose *average contribution* was the smallest"?
Maybe Lessig's campaign will generate this also as an awareness... maybe
that is really what it is about... if so... more power to him... I'll
send him a buck. And keep on harping.
Carry on,
- Steve
Dare I say, as expected, offered an opportunity to actual do
something, many (the 91%?) keep explaining (debate back and forth) why
one should do nothing.
With all the talent and expertise on this list, surely someone could
help Larry Lessig succeed with his campaign? It's
complicated/complex. Who's up to it? Remember, this was inspired
<http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-aaron-swartz-helped-inspire-lawrence-lessigs-mayday-pac>
by Aaron Swartz.
Robert C
On 7/1/14 7:47 PM, Arlo Barnes wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:36 PM, glen <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
But, again, hyper-focus on how we vote is probably no better than
hyper-focus on how campaigns are funded. If only there were some
way we could compose multiple mechanisms into some magic machine
and, oh I don't know, run it forward to see how it all works out,
then compare that machine to data taken from the world and tweak
the machine until it seems to work, then base our predictions off
that machine. [sigh] Sounds like science fiction to me!
Sound like history to me. Although there are a few things about our
current situation that are unique enough to make it hard to draw
comparisons.
-Arlo James Barnes
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