<div dir="ltr">not only are they not ready to embrace it,<div><br></div><div>they are actively hoping to design it out of the online governance systems,</div><div><br></div><div>the reasoning seems to be: democracy doesn't work, therefore we must abolish it and replace it with technocratic algorithms ..</div>
<div><br></div><div>Michel</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 11:21 AM, parminder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:parminder.js@gmail.com" target="_blank">parminder.js@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<font face="Verdana">Very useful article.<br>
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Especially the observation, which is quite Castellsian..<br>
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"</font><font face="Verdana">Networks which have no
counter-measures to maintain equality inevitably lead in time to a
new concentration of resources."<br>
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And the counter-measure to networks, as to free market (and the
two do share some key elements, and therefore presents such a
potent force that it has more or less overwhelmed us </font><font face="Verdana">today</font><font face="Verdana">), is in my view.
POLITICS.<br>
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Which is the reason that this self willed animal, Network, is so
keen to annihilate politics, and replace it with a version of its
own, of networked politics, like MSism and the such, which is no
politics at all, just an antidote to politics, and will not be
needed and disappear the day politics die.<br>
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But the problem is that; so many who hate and resist the growing
power of the network, are simply not ready to sufficiently embrace
politics. That to me today is the key problem. <br>
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parminder <br>
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<div>On Sunday 24 August 2014 07:15 AM,
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