“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:
Your Personal Gold Standard
“I Will Never Go Back”: why the Ukrainians did what they did
Fight Back Against Hidden Regulations That Threaten Your Health
The Goodfellas of Wall Street
“Race” – The Divide-And-Conquer Tool Of Tyrants
A Nation of Rules: The US Justice System
Robert P. Murphy: Market for Security
Last Exit Coming Up
Will Grigg: The Stalinist in the White House
The Fiscal Cliff's Structural Endgame
Economic Darwinism and the Next Financial Crisis
The Secret’s Out: Now Is the Time for International Diversification
Bitcoin is a Startup
Do Korea “experts” know what they are talking about?
Reevaluating Drug Courts: No Mother Should Have to Go Through What I Did