[governance] Long view cross roads

[linda misek-falkoff]

Dear Eric et al:

Interesting as always.  Also underfoot: forming a fundable (read more
viable) organization.

Perhaps one thinks & soothes self too often that Might doesn't make Right -
but most discussions of Rights (even or especially claims of suggested-to-be
core "human" rights)  do acknowledge the need for Development as
underpinnings.

"Might" in terms of organization to promote "Voice & Vote", that is, may
make Right *possible*.  It seems the sense of this gathering that with the
Internet as elsewhere this *possibility* is not only attractive but very
much needed.

Best wishes and reading on,  Linda M F.

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Eric Dierker
<cogitoergosum at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> Since I spend quite a bit of time hiking active and dormant Volcanoes and
> out of Billion year old canyons, I have developed a kind of long view on
> crisis and matters of climate.
>
> But as a student of history I like to look for significant moments where
> good men & women did not act. The easy are things like when a huge Dam was
> built, Holocausts, Genocides, famines and plagues. Wars generally are the
> result of a citizenry that lets their government get out of control -- but
> usually that is gradual.
>
> I am prognosticating now that we are just about at a crossroads with the
> Internet.  Either the citizenry wake up and do something or the governments
> (in this case largely corporate conglomerates) will be unfettered.  ICANN is
> unchecked now, Intellectual Property interests are reducing our rights, and
> privacy violations are more oft sanctioned than not. Each progression toward
> these dilatory factors remains quiet and unopposed.
>
> Either we quickly provide some structure for individual checks and balances
> on the elite or we are headed very soon into a situation of might is
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