By now, most people on top of our Society's Transmutation into surveillance state are beginning to realize what we might be in for... ..Its pretty clear that over the longer run, corruption driven interests in the personal extortion market place will come to mine the very data base that the NSA is building up "for our safety"...
Then should we expect otherwise?... In a nut shell...we only have our self's to blame.. Lets face it, The current social script as to how Democracy is supposed to operate is clearly broken.. and in the information age we should know better.. after all, ultimately truly democratic governance is about the transmission of information regarding the actual wishes of the electorate into the governance process... Last I checked the information transmission rate associated with crowds taking to the streets and waving signs, or for that mater writing letters to ones congressman/woman.. is not exactly state of the art in the era of networked communication... so why are we as a humanity collectively groveling, as if we know no not better..?.. perhaps such that we maintain the existing (fairly dysfunctional/partially corrupt, money driven) power schema? The crazy thing is, we then pretend that somehow we are setting a good example for the rest of the world to follow, when in reality... we don't even seem as a country all that interested ins safeguarding our own constitution's sense of moral value... We can easily do MUCH better... starting from well founded formal understanding of the nature of information flow surrounding a truly democratic social decision process.. But at this point, I ask do we as a society actually have any real interest in exploring this possibility space?, or perhaps in the end, we might be just as content with the form of "democracy" where the elite group of privet interests with the ability to extract the best extortion data, and posses the most powerful (privatized) military... gets it way..? Given that the solution, involving social network driven proxy based (trust maintained), issue specialized, expertise leveraged representation... that entertains a wide open alternative space, that leverages the best, crowd sourced governance solutions seems just around the corner.. .why don't we wake up a smell the coffee?? -Peter
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