“Lots of people have lots of complaints about the Internet, and some of those complaints are based in fact. One that I hadn’t heard before, until US Secretary of State John Kerry brought it up, is that the Internet makes it ‘much harder to govern, much harder to organize people, much harder to find the common interest …’ Kerry’s lamentation isn’t the first such, nor will it be the last: The American and global political classes recognize fast, cheap communication between their subjects as the death knell for their own tenuous grip on power. The bloated, bureaucratic, hierarchal, snail-paced organizations on which states rely are no match.”
Related posts:
Putin was wrong: The exceptionalism of the United States is alive and real
Downside Resilience, Anyone?
The NSA and Its “Compliance Problems”
It Won't Stay in Vegas: The Metro PD's Homeland Security Theater
Publishing Atrocity: The 1963 Edition of Human Action
Dual Canadian-American citizens: We are not tax cheats
Why I Am an Anarcho-Capitalist
The Biggest Interest-Rate Turn in 37 Years
How to Use Sex Like a Russian Spy
Iraq’s pain has only intensified since 2003
Bill Bonner: Give Thanks to ‘The 1%’
Paul Craig Roberts: The Western Onslaught Against International Law
I, Pencil: The Movie
Doug Casey on the Fourth Estate
Janet Yellen, the Nation's New Chief Slumlord
