[governance] The danger of blindly trusting the technocrats

[Chaitanya Dhareshwar]

I would +1 that Avri. It's not that we'd call it quite as horrific as the
borg are defined in star trek - just that resistance seems quite futile, so
similar in that context....


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:

>
> On 28 May 2013, at 07:22, Riaz K Tayob wrote:
>
> >  it seems like the Borg has it right as far as public interest in the US
> goes (of course from an outsider perspective looking in) - resistance is
> futile...
>
>
> Is it your point that if you are from the US you might as well forget
> participating in civil society because you are part of the corporate Borg
> and there is nothing you can do about it?  I have long suspected that that
> this belief was the underlying unspoken philosophy by many on this list,
> but this is the closest I think I have seen anyone actually say it
> outright.  So I figured I would check to make sure I understood correct, is
> that what you are saying?
>
> avri
>
>
>
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