[governance] Long view cross roads

[Eric Dierker]

Fear not fine maiden,  there are those of us that are mighty devious.  The trick more often than not -- does not lie in wielding the might but in manipulating it.  There is no wonder why the ancients and old testament directors used the concept of an all powerful and mighty.  I prefer to take a more inverse rain approach. The mighty cloud is formed by all the tiny raindrops.

--- On Fri, 12/11/09, linda misek-falkoff <ldmisekfalkoff at gmail.com> wrote:


From: linda misek-falkoff <ldmisekfalkoff at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [governance] Long view cross roads
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org, "Eric Dierker" <cogitoergosum at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: respectful.interfaces at gmail.com, "l.d. misek-falkoff" <ldmisekfalkoff at gmail.com>
Date: Friday, December 11, 2009, 2:06 PM



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 right.____________________________________________________________
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