Chris:
> But now for the first time in history, the Information Age would have the
> potential to finally overcome Predator rule. However, with unimpartial
> tricksters like Gurstein calling the shots in "community informatics",
> Predators will know how to prevent that, in order to perpetuate Predator rule.
>
C'mon Chris, we're all predators. I honestly can't believe that you're naive
enough to think that we can overcome something that is so deeply built into our
personalities.
Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christoph Reuss" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Futurework] In the name of charity
> Ed Weick wrote:
>> One of the best books I've read on the theme of grand social dreams and
>> what happens because of them is John Gray's Black Mass. The simple words
>> of Christ led to huge persecutions; The Enlightenment led to chaos and the
>> choppings of many heads; the perceptions of Adam Smith justified the
>> creation of vast city slums; Marx's idea that workers should own the means
>> of production led to Stalinism; and the American dream of freedom and
>> democracy has thus far led to Iraq and Afghanistan. How we dream and how
>> we behave because of those dreams are two very different things.
>
> What a superficial nonsense. In every single "example" you mentioned,
> Predators messed up -- by distorting -- the "social dreams". It was not
> the social dreams that "led to" fatal outcomes, it was the action of
> Predators that mis-led to fatal outcomes. To blame this on "how WE behave"
> (unless "we" refers to Predators), is the usual Predator propaganda --
> shifting the blame for their own crimes on to "the masses", "the State"
> or other anonymous entities ("the regulations", "the corporations" etc.).
>
> So far, every "revolution" merely replaced one set of Predators in charge
> by another set of Predators in charge (or even the same turncoats in a new
> coat, as in Russia or Obama's war minister, secretary of state and economic
> advisors -- contrary to Obama's election promise to break with the
> establishment and start anew with real Change).
>
> But now for the first time in history, the Information Age would have the
> potential to finally overcome Predator rule. However, with unimpartial
> tricksters like Gurstein calling the shots in "community informatics",
> Predators will know how to prevent that, in order to perpetuate Predator rule.
>
> Chris
>
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