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[rich]

i dont know, cynic that I am i just find it galling he makes these profound
statements from Russia.


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:49 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> This might interest you:
>
> http://www.esquire.com/_mobile/blogs/politics/edward-snowden-sxsw-031114
>
> *Edward Snowden called into a panel* at South by Southwest today. He was
> somewhere in Russia, still on the lam from a United States government that
> views him as a traitor and wants him imprisoned for it, and he was
> answering questions from the public, on camera, for the first time.
>
> Before this, he was a packet of information lopped on a table. He was
> access to all of the NSA's misdeeds and little else. He was part of the
> package deal.
>
> Instead, today, Snowden spoke cogently and urgently about action. Not for
> himself, by the way. He did not speak to clear his name. He pleaded for
> more advances in the tech community to help Americans ensure that any
> future economy -- any Technological Revolution -- is entirely their own.
>
> "There's a political response that needs to occur, but there's also a tech
> response that needs to occur. The people in the room in Austin, they're the
> folks who can fix this," he said. "We need public oversight, some way for
> trusted public figures to advocate for us. We need a watchdog that watches
> Congress, because if we're not informed, we can't consent to these
> policies."
>
> It was a call to action, but this was different. This was not a politician
> promising vague, intangible change in an effort to win influence. There was
> no hand waving, no music, no parade.
>
> Instead, Edward Snowden is the best kind of American leader: A man, in the
> face of immense harm, pursuing a concrete idea that will better every
> person, check unchecked power, and allow us more access to what we know
> about ourselves.
>
> *There are two movements* clashing here. One of the movements is dying.
>
> The people in one of them are dying, and not at the hands of the tyranny
> they dream up around them, but of sad, slow, typical death. There are no
> cathartic last stands on the front lawn, a man and his hunting rifle
> getting in a last hurrah against an ATF coming for the gun rack. There is
> no last-second poetry penned while withering away because the socialist
> gruel rations finally ran out. People are dying of the regular ol' stuff,
> afraid.
>
> The other movement is adapting to the world around them. They are
> accepting the beauty in information and one another, instead of fearing for
> the sake of fear. They are on the offensive.
>
> In Washington D.C., Sarah Palin delivered the keynote address to the
> Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday.
>
> She literally read a children's book to adults to raucous applause. It was
> a modified Dr. Seuss book that she got from an email chain letter<http://www.mediaite.com/online/palins-green-eggs-and-ham-cpac-bit-was-ripped-off-a-chain-email/>
> .
>
> In that other movement, there are meetings like the one today at SXSW.
> They talked about the complexities of data collection -- and how to
> synthesize it, transparently, for good. It was about exposing data
> collection programs to scrutiny -- to uncover abuse -- so it can only be used
> *for* people, not *against* them. It was about, as Snowden said today,
> "how do you interpret (these communications), how do you understand them."
>
> All this tech talk is, invariably, filled with compassion.
>
> It's no longer a question of if we will or will not have a better America.
> It's a question of how long it will take the younger and brighter and
> better to drown out the institution that is impeding American progress with
> grade school debate, bullying and pettiness. It's a question of when they
> will be able to communicate to America that they are the only chance at a
> productive future.
>
> On Tuesday, March 11, 2014, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>
>>  A conspiracy of evolutionary exodus.
>> "The theory of exodus proposes that the most effective way of opposing
>> capitalism and the liberal state is not through direct confrontation but by
>> means of what Paolo Virno has called "engaged withdrawal,"mass defection by
>> those wishing to create new forms of community. One need only glance at the
>> historical record to confirm that most successful forms of popular
>> resistance have taken precisely this form. They have not involved
>> challenging power head on (this usually leads to being slaughtered, or if
>> not, turning into some--often even uglier--variant of the
>> very thing one first challenged) but from one or another strategy of
>> slipping away from its grasp, from flight, desertion, the founding of new
>> communities."
>> -- David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
>>
>>   As Emma Goldman pointed out, dancing is  also critical.
>> On Mar 10, 2014, at 9:40 PM, David Morris wrote:
>>
>> > Chaos is status quo.  It wears a shiny suit. It wants to look pretty,
>> but will take whatever cover it can get.  Chaos is Fox News :). Chaos has
>> bad motives.  It isn't natural. It is toxic. Chaos is an evil use of primal
>> energy. But evolution is anti-chaos.  Evolution is unstoppable. Evolution
>> is a sure bet.
>> >
>> > From my pulpit post Mardi Gras,
>> > Peace and Love,
>> > Darwin
>> >
>> > On Monday, March 10, 2014, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>> > Chaos however is a weird word. Is life a conspiracy against chaos?, is
>> chaos a conspiracy to bring forth life ? Is chaos a dream, the allure of
>> dissolution and death?
>> > <photo1.jpg>
>>
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