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                                             February 20, 2012

                              LONG_SHOT

Where Lessig sees evil branching out
from a root cause, I see a network of        CHAIN_DRIVE
tangled, self-reinforcing problems.

  The right attack may need to
  be a manifold attack.                 And it may need to be a long campaign...
                                        play deeper than the bad guys, who
  We (you know, *us*, the good          almost by definition are short-sighted.
  guys) don't do united fronts
  terribly well.   Maybe we                                     THE_LONG_WATCH
  need to accept that?             I sometimes feel like
                                   Lessig is an odd
      You've got to work with      newbie at political
      what you are...              activism.  He might
                                   have spent a little
                                   more time studying
                                   the history of
                                   methods of achieving
                                   political reform...



   The Problem Net...
                                            CHAIN_DRIVE
   Big media owned
   by the bad guys.    Media consolidation,
                       post-96 (Al Gore is
                       still proud of this).     Distracted, half-awake
                                                 electorate brainwashed
                                                 by the drum beat, in
                                                 spite of themselves.
                 School system starved
                 for funding, weak
                 education => populace
                 easier to manipulate.        Information asymmetry:
                                              the parasites have more
    A cultural malaise: we                    incentive to know
    expected congress to be                   what's happening than
    corrupt, we expect                        the hosts.
    corporations to lie,
    complaining about it           MURDERER_IN_CHIEF
    seems naive, pointless.

                                Possibility that the
                                "free market" notion
                                that money can do no
                                wrong undercuts any
                                demands for any sort
                                of integrity.






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