On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 7:58 am Arun M <[email protected]> wrote:
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Expectedly, Sunde brings insight.
Personally, I wish he had not used the word communism. It is a sponge of a
word, oozing confusion over mature discussions, and history has made it so.
I always thought the forms of communism that have brought the word into
disrepute, practised in many countries, could not be expected to achieve
meaningful results without modern technology, primarily communication
technologies. But as humans, we are more suspicious of technology than we
are of social systems.
Technology can be empowering. But we are using it to empower non-human
entities over human rights, which seems illogical, but then, so does
history. Like Sunde, I too am getting older, and disheartened by the
increasingly cavalier use of technology to shatter human rights. He thinks
this happens due to greed, but that seems to be a human characteristic.
The point is, this is not any technology, this is information technology.
There may be an apocalyptic period ahead, but somewhat possible, instead of
wanton destruction, this apocalypse will be constructive, because the
inevitable accompaniment of IT used for oppression is that people can find
ways to learn.
Will they? Or will the access to information be so constricted that such
ways will always remain the province of a few discontented people
('paranoid conspiracy theorists', is what Sunde says), presumably including
a handful on this list.
Vickram
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