it's great to tease out the right-libertarian influences on cyber-systems and culture, these are very real, but it's only part of the story, while Randian philosophy focuses on a minority of heroes in a mass of sheep; others have wanted to help all sheep; in other words, cyberculture is equally influenced by egalitarian dreams, not just elitist ones ...<br>
<br>Michel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Kevin Flanagan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kev.flanagan@gmail.com">kev.flanagan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
How the 'ecosystem' myth has been used for sinister means - Adam<br>
Curtis - Guardian<br>
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When, in the 1920s, a botanist and a field marshal dreamed up rival<br>
theories of nature and society, no one could have guessed their ideas<br>
would influence the worldview of 70s hippies and 21st-century protest<br>
movements. But their faith in self-regulating systems has a sinister<br>
history<br>
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/29/adam-curtis-ecosystems-tansley-smuts" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/29/adam-curtis-ecosystems-tansley-smuts</a><br>
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Episode 1 of his current documentary is up on youtube<br>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX5jImWRREc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX5jImWRREc</a><br>
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