[P2P-F] Fwd: Gerald Celente - Society Is Breaking Down

Mon Sep 19 00:52:33 CEST 2011

Excerpts from Michel Bauwens's message of Sun Sep 18 16:57:04 +0000 2011:
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> From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 4:01 PM
> Subject: Gerald Celente - Society Is Breaking Down
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> Video :
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> http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/gerald-celente-things-going-much-worse-society-breaking-131030651.html
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> http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2011/09/gerald-celente-society-is-breaking-down.html
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*** From the video:

"We believe there's a solution by the way.
We say direct democracy: let the people vote.
If we can bank online, we can vote online."

Warning: that is a very simplistic way of characterizing direct democracy.  The previous experience in electronic voting has shown how 
easy it is to falsify the results when the system is not secure.  As you may know, security is a trade-off between the value of what 
one wants to protect, and the perceived value another is ready to invest to breach that security.  Moreover, voting is only a single 
piece of the process, and probably the least of it: when consensus is reached, voting becomes a formality.  Direct democracy is more 
about reaching that consensus.

To quote David D. Clarke: 

  We reject: kings, presidents and voting.
  We believe in: rough consensus and running code.

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hk