Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
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Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
"LOVE LOVE LOVE your futorological brickbats! Love them! You are in fine company with Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary with these." -- Paulina Borsook
"Devoted to highly rhetorical nitpicking, but it is fun to read." -- Chris Mooney
"Rather close but correct reading." -- Evgeny Morozov
"Mean, but true." -- Annalee Newitz
"Dale Carrico's skewering of the salvific pretensions of Silicon Valley's soi disant savior/founders never disappoints." -- Frank Pasquale
"Pretty breathless, but I guess it had to be said." -- Bruce Sterling
"An essential reality check for those who are too entranced by transhumanism to notice the sordid reality behind the curtain." -- Charlie Stross
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Oh, these things have nothing to do with **guns**, silly!
It all happens because of gays and the ACLU.
http://gawker.com/5927974/american-family-association-news-director-blames-mass-shooting-on-aclu-gays-liberal-churches
It is encouraging to notice that the god-guns-gays strategy and the Southern Strategy look to be collapsing more or less simultaneously.
Although I am incensed by the sullen silence of so many Dems on guns right about now I must say that there is also more push-back than I expected, already more than the Giffords shooting occasioned, perhaps inflected by the Martin case, suggesting the politics are ready to shift here as they already have on queer issues and are beginning to on the treatment of religious minorities (atheists like us, probably no such luck for a while more, unfortunately).
Anyway, I didn't expect the demographics to shift so much so quickly myself, and if it weren't for the realities of anthropogenic climate change and of the corporate capture of the election system and regulatory apparatus I would actually be feeling rather rosy about the prospects for progress in the years to come as I ripen like cheese.
I expect lots of heartbreak and needless suffering and death and rage... but there are possibilities afoot. I definitely don't feel like I used to down in the depths of the Killer Clown Administration.
Rush's audience is rushing for the exits, and America is diversifying and secularizing fast. The entrenched money issue is terrible, but I think you might find it amazing how quickly a progressive tax policy and a couple more liberals at the Supreme Court can change things from impossible to possible for the better.
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