#dougrushkoff — Public Fediverse posts

I'm listening to #DougRushkoff's interview with #FredTurner on #TeamHuman and its occurs to me that we are presented with a false choice, when it comes to the future of democracy. One the one hand, we're being asked to resuscitate the old, centralized model of the "nation-station", and on the other hand to abandon it in favour of a completely fluid, distributed model of P2P consensus over social networks. A model that we've seen lend itself to massive tyrannies of structurelessness. (1/2)

"[Zuckerberg's] notion that connecting the whole world on one network was so obviously a good idea that it justified whatever means were necessary to get there."
- #RogerMcNamee talking to #DougRushkoff on #TeamHuman

An otherwise laudable desire for universal human unity, without respect for #DueProcess, or community rights to be autonomous from larger structures of power, is the essence of Empire. #KenWilbur pointed this out in 'A Brief History of Everything'. Democracy is network, not empire.

#DymitriKleiner pitching his #VentureCommunism concept at #SigInt 2010:
https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=L01iiJz8Thc

This is worth a watch even if you consider yourself pro-capitalist and anti-communist, because as he explains at the start, the way he uses these terms is *totally* different from the way you do. #DougRushkoff presents pretty much the same criticisms of the effects of #VentureCapitalism on digital tech in his 'Throwing Rocks ...' book, but with a pro-business, anti-corporate framing.