The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% - ex CIA spy
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/19/open-source-revolution-conquer-one-percent-cia-spyIt's not just the US, he adds. "The preconditions of revolution exist in the UK, and most western countries. The number of active pre-conditions is quite stunning, from elite isolation to concentrated wealth to inadequate socialisation and education, to concentrated land holdings to loss of authority to repression of new technologies especially in relation to energy, to the atrophy of the public sector and spread of corruption, to media dishonesty, to mass unemployment of young men and on and on and on."
So why isn't it happening yet?
"Preconditions are not the same as precipitants. We are waiting for our Tunisian fruit seller. The public will endure great repression, especially when most media outlets and schools are actively aiding the repressive meme of 'you are helpless, this is the order of things.' When we have a scandal so powerful that it cannot be ignored by the average Briton or American, we will have a revolution that overturns the corrupt political systems in both countries, and perhaps puts many banks out of business. Vaclav Havel calls this 'The Power of the Powerless.' One spark, one massive fire."
But we need more than revolution, in the sense of overthrow, to effect change, surely. How does your manifesto for 'open source everything' fit into this? "The west has pursued an industrialisation path that allows for the privatisation of wealth from the commons, along with the criminalisation of commons rights of the public, as well as the externalisation of all true costs. Never mind that fracking produces earthquakes and poisons aquifers corrupt politicians at local, state or province, and national levels are all too happy to take money for looking the other way. Our entire commercial, diplomatic, and informational systems are now cancerous. When trade treaties have secret sections or are entirely secret one can be certain the public is being screwed and the secrecy is an attempt to avoid accountability. Secrecy enables corruption. So also does an inattentive public enable corruption."
Is this a crisis of capitalism, then? Does capitalism need to end for us to resolve these problems? And if so, how? "Predatory capitalism is based on the privatisation of profit and the externalisation of cost. It is an extension of the fencing of the commons, of enclosures, along with the criminalisation of prior common customs and rights. What we need is a system that fully accounts for all costs. Whether we call that capitalism or not is irrelevant to me. But doing so would fundamentally transform the dynamic of present day capitalism, by making capital open source. For example, and as calculated by my colleague JZ Liszkiewicz, a white cotton T-shirt contains roughly 570 gallons of water, 11 to 29 gallons of fuel, and a number of toxins and emissions including pesticides, diesel exhaust, and heavy metals and other volatile compounds it also generally includes child labor. Accounting for those costs and their real social, human and environmental impacts has totally different implications for how we should organise production and consumption than current predatory capitalism."
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)SamKnause
(13,108 posts)Thank you for posting.
I am not, nor have I ever been in the CIA, but I have been saying the same thing for about 7 years.
It is going to get very ugly before this catastrophe gets straightened out.
pretzel4gore
(8,146 posts)the recent fall in ppb of oil makes one wonder: since NOTHING occurs in the pig's mediaworld that does not, somehow, advance HIS interest- is the powers-that-be, aka the 1%, aka the police stastists, ie the nazipooh 'masters of this human dump' etc...are THEY starting to see the vicious reactionary mentality running the big show as maybe threatening to they and their own kids' survival? The fact is, if one's a leftist like me, that the ONLY good news we've been getting lately, since reagan, is the fact the pig is literally destroying His future (along with all the innocent)....could it be they're now cutting the ground from under the oil barons warpigs and so called capitalists who still think a couple trillion more tonnes carbon can safely be put into planet's 12 mile think atmosphere?? (with the leftwing majority then responsible for engineering the planet's survival?) The revolution is over, i think, and ....do people really believe the crap they see on tv news?
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)The Open-Source Everything Manifesto
Transparency, Truth, and Trust
by Robert David Steele
yurbud
(39,405 posts)how the hell anyone would make a living in that system.