Ed Weick wrote:
>
> Keith Hudson:
>
> > Coming to the basic issue, however, modern society is becoming far too
> > complex to be governed by the simplistic process of one-person-one-vote.
[snip]
> Because of the internationalization of
> the economy (globalization), governments, with the possible exception of the
> United States and the Taliban, have lost a considerable degree of control
> over domestic affairs. Perhaps the only reservoir of countervailing power
> we still have resides in the courts. Witness the US Justice Department
> taking on Microsoft.
>
> I would agree with Keith that all of this is taking us somewhere, but I
> would very much like to know where.
I was expecting that last sentence to read more like: All of this
is taking us somewhere, but I am not eager to find out where.
The human lifeworld is an unprecedented "evolutionary experiment".
The hypertrophy of communication technologies coupled with the
enormous number of people in communicative interaction is strongly
unprecedented. Clearly, it is possible that the "problem" will
not have any other than a "Darwinean" solution, which may take
the form of some kind of widespread collapse and/or a fascist
"rescue".
As for voting, I think it works best at the "scale" of
an organization's board of directors. America's last presidential
election showed it is not even a reliable opiate for the masses.
As for the US Justice Department "taking on Microsoft", that's
not looking too promising at the moment, is it? (Microsoft's
"next generation product" is apparently something called "dot-Net", which
will be a universal database for all individuals and all
institutions to conduct all their interactions, with
complete security and privacy....)
+\brad mccormick
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