the persistence of control

[Craig Smith]

> > His new book, Protocol: How
> > Control Exists After Decentralization (MIT), asserts
> > that, far from existing as a counter-hegemonic
> > free-for-all, "the Internet is the most highly
> > controlled mass media hitherto known." [...] 
> 
> As usual it depends on which variety of Freedom one is talking
about.
> The kind of freedom the Decentralized Internet exemplifies 
isn't the
> kind prized by Continental Theorizing.

The internet shows the paradox of anarchy. Because there are no
rules, it's easy to control it. For example, look at the large number
of decoy web sites out there... I think "freedom" itself is
an illusion, since one is never truly "free" except without
obligations, e.g. in death.

But it depends on how you think. If you're a Progressive, you believe
we're working steadily toward a state of ultimate freedom, but if
you're a Naturalist, you know "freedom" like anything else
runs in cycles.


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