We could also try to start the ball rolling from ET by writing a proposal, but FFII are the stakeholders and they have the lobbying infrastructure in place. Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
I agree about the backbone - all narrow physical logistic channels are both open to government intervention AND terrorist actions. And the Internet is such - with nodes and intercontinental connections particularly open to unwanted control.
Putting everything into the air, and decentralizing information flows will certainly help. But I am looking to a complete cultural paradigm shift that will reverse the hierarchy of power to become a bottom-up system.
Nomad told me in Amsterdam of the Dutch 'no-style' party of very interactive anarchists who have proposed getting an MP elected. The actions of the MP will then be defined by a) a manifesto and b) ongoing policy decisions, which are in themselves decided by the members of the interactive. This is an example of bottom-up decision processes. Since "We, the people" appears to be the basis of democracy, then let's have exactly that - let the people decide.
But ET is certainly the place to hash out the underlying questions. Maybe we can also contribute to the FFII actions? You can't be me, I'm taken
