Unless we can figure out a way to stand up to corporate bullying and get the legislature to care properly about human rights, we're doomed.
Things have become so ideological that the back-and-forth necessary to be fully cognitive humans is not happening.
It takes a dialog to create a creative outcome.
Turn to the art / music / writing, not guns, kids. It's really not much more simple than that, and we still can't get it.
How about universal income? a living wage? a cybernetic system under humanitarian control?
Look, dude, the rules didn't change just because computers started mediating all of our transactions.
The law still holds some potential, but "Citizens United"? Like that is seriously delusional.
We need to bring the laws from outside the system INTO the system in a gentle and incremental way.
There are so many problems to solve, let's start with the easy consensus, and then when we realize that we actually CAN work together, we'll be better suited to solve the other problems.
But we need dialog with the centers of power to make that happen, and in this world of viral memetics, it may require guerrilla theater. The dialog HAS to start, and it has to be through language.
Intelligence must become self-conscious, realise its own power, and, on a global scale, transcending functions that are no longer appropriate, dare to exercise it. History will not overthrow national governments; it will outflank them. The cultural revolt is the necessary underpinning, the passionate substructure of a new order of things. — Alexander Trocchi
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