Maybe we'll all go to jail soon, for trying to expose actual fiat currency operations?
There are growing numbers of clumsy responses, to citizen oversight of fellow citizens. Are these responses sliding to adaptive, or reverse social engineering?
We know about attempted prosecutions of Snowden & Assange. Yet there are many, less publicized citizen whistleblowers now facing prosecution, and/or already held in jail, uncharged.
Imagine a world where the only place where fiat can be safely expressed ... is under the protection of Russian gangsters! Oddly familiar?
Why is this happening? We can't hide everything from all the people, all the time?
Can anything adaptive come of it? That depends on our distributed assessments of our collective outcomes, and our subsequent, cultural adjustments. That is, if we're still capable of adjusting.
Is there a better way? Always has been. It's up to us to find yet another one.
What's that old saying?
No sub-group of bumbling bureaucrats is ever as smart as all of us?
So who says that prosecuting the smartest of us ever works out in the long run? Shoot the messenger just slows unavoidable adjustments, and is always maladaptive.
We know about attempted prosecutions of Snowden & Assange. Yet there are many, less publicized citizen whistleblowers now facing prosecution, and/or already held in jail, uncharged.
Imagine a world where the only place where fiat can be safely expressed ... is under the protection of Russian gangsters! Oddly familiar?
Why is this happening? We can't hide everything from all the people, all the time?
Can anything adaptive come of it? That depends on our distributed assessments of our collective outcomes, and our subsequent, cultural adjustments. That is, if we're still capable of adjusting.
Is there a better way? Always has been. It's up to us to find yet another one.
What's that old saying?
No sub-group of bumbling bureaucrats is ever as smart as all of us?
So who says that prosecuting the smartest of us ever works out in the long run? Shoot the messenger just slows unavoidable adjustments, and is always maladaptive.
The issue is not whether various public agency bureaucrats are trying to do THEIR job as THEY see fit.
The issue is always their individual and group intelligence! If an electorate can't select the right people for the right jobs, AND PREPARE THEM WELL ... then everything gradually ends up in the crapper.
The issue is always their individual and group intelligence! If an electorate can't select the right people for the right jobs, AND PREPARE THEM WELL ... then everything gradually ends up in the crapper.
Yet if citizens DO select well ... then something called a functioning democracy can occur. With byproducts like a functioning currency system, and functioning markets. Even a Middle Class!!! Remember that? We used to have one.
And what if an electorate can't or won't select to PREPARE it's own, budding citizens well? Literally everything just ends up in the crapper even faster?
Random examples:
Think EVERYTHING wired isn't bugged, at will? Instead of going to any length to protect ourselves from people we tick off, it's leaner/faster/better to simply pay a bit more attention to not ticking people off in the 1st place? Ounce of prevention vs pound of cure? That's how evolution works.
Stratfor Works on Silencing It's Own Whistleblowers. (The story of one citizen is classic. Why not elect him, instead of jailing him?)
FDIC Prosecuting It's Whistleblowers too. (FDIC is silencing this whistleblower, Dwight Haskins.)
Whistleblowers can be everything from criminals to martyrs, but they always inform their public, and hence serve an adaptive purpose. By definition, efforts to prevent transparency inevitably cause more harm than good to every "system." If we aren't transparent, we aren't an agile system. If we can't expose our own operations, how can we keep finding better ways?
And what if an electorate can't or won't select to PREPARE it's own, budding citizens well? Literally everything just ends up in the crapper even faster?
Random examples:
Think EVERYTHING wired isn't bugged, at will? Instead of going to any length to protect ourselves from people we tick off, it's leaner/faster/better to simply pay a bit more attention to not ticking people off in the 1st place? Ounce of prevention vs pound of cure? That's how evolution works.
Stratfor Works on Silencing It's Own Whistleblowers. (The story of one citizen is classic. Why not elect him, instead of jailing him?)
FDIC Prosecuting It's Whistleblowers too. (FDIC is silencing this whistleblower, Dwight Haskins.)
Whistleblowers can be everything from criminals to martyrs, but they always inform their public, and hence serve an adaptive purpose. By definition, efforts to prevent transparency inevitably cause more harm than good to every "system." If we aren't transparent, we aren't an agile system. If we can't expose our own operations, how can we keep finding better ways?
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