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On 3/17/20 2:22 PM, David Stodolsky wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:56B7CF11-BEB5-42C4-93DE-221D62ECF32C@socialinformatics.org">
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">The Snowden releases and the blatantly unlawful attacks upon Assange and others who try to inform the public of the crimes committed in their name have made it clear that elites worldwide are in a precarious position. From my upcoming paper ("Subverting Surveillance" or "Surveillance and goal formulation in mass direct actions”):</pre>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the interest of time and
brevity, I shall aim to focus upon those items in your
correspondence to which a reply is possible at the moment.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I beg
your indulgence, and a careful review.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Permit me to begin here......</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">In relation to your aforementioned
statement, historically, 'Power Systems'
have exhibited a great antipathy to any bequeathment of their
crowns.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>From a wholistic
point of view then, Snowden
and Assange are ‘quantities’ </span><span style="font-size:
14pt;">in OUR collective and contemporary power struggles; </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt;">individuals who had determinedly
launched, <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>and once
maintained, their mostly unconnected
struggles with Power Systems. </span><br>
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cite="mid:56B7CF11-BEB5-42C4-93DE-221D62ECF32C@socialinformatics.org">
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">— Introduction —
[ .... ] Evens, Stoker, and Halupka (2018) found “compelling evidence of an increasing trust divide between government and citizens” and that “fewer than 41% of Australian citizens are satisfied with the way democracy works in Australia.” Further, they found that the “Appetite for democratic reform is extremely strong.”</pre>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Since, the warranted clarity
is unavailable to me, to what precisely-- </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt;">Evens,
Stoker, and Halupka (2018) </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">are
pointing, <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>when they
suggest, that an </span><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“</span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 14pt;">[a]</span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 14pt;">ppetite
for democratic reform is extremely strong...</span></i><span
style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>”</i>, the reference in general - is
at least confusing.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In a
contemporary context, notions of “democratic reform” as such, is
hardly
imaginable as being substantive, and being anything but a purely
aureate reference, especially considering, the
subject of “democratic reform” has been 'undignified' by great
numbers of scholarly
dissections for the better part of 2 centuries.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Lack of intellectual
clarity has
been the dominant result from those dissections.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>To great personal displeasure, some years ago, I had
somehow managed to
stumble upon an imprudent pigeonholing by Cartwright and Baker
(2005), who underlined
that, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">“…the American
Declaration of
Independence from Britain was an event heralding democratic
reform"</i> (in:
Literature and Science: Social Impact and Interaction).<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The “Declaration of
Independence” – by its
very nature, detailed seditious intent and action;<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>hardly democratic, and hardly
reformatory at
heart or in function!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It is well known that by, and
upon 'the
Declaration', Benjamin Franklin had wittily remarked to John
Hancock that, <i>“…we
must indeed hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang
separately.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span></span><span style="font-size:
14pt;"></span><br>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Even within that tight
wrapping of wit and sarcasm, was a sense and drive of unity and
cohesion in
Franklin’s words; <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>a
cohesion - to higher
ideals, and a “break-neck” understanding that such a matter as
‘the Declaration’,
had to be undertaken, and that consequences must then be borne by
all involved.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Contrastingly,
if the United States of today is to continue
being an example (and it must be, in this case), > 30% of
contemporary American
citizens could not name a single branch of government, when asked.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>More than HALF (53%) could
not identify the
Chief-Justice of the United States Supreme Court when we were
queried.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Protections of
personal freedoms, and the
effectiveness of governance systems cannot be preserved,
maintained or enhanced
with that kind of historically protracted intrinsic ignorance.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Such <b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">willful
ignorance</b> of vital facts essential to the <b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">stewardship</b> of the integrity of a Republic, only
fosters and accelerates decline of
society.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt;"></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I have attempted to
share, and in condensed form, the intersection of several samples
of<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> that which I characterize as </span><i>anthropotechnomorphic</i>
effects, and of the clouding
(no pun intended) technology-use related impingement upon personal
freedoms the world over.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>If
there is interest, it can be found here:
<i>"Interrogating “privacy” in a world brimming with high
political
entanglements, surveillance, interdependence &
interconnections"</i>
[From: Springer-Nature, WHO & IUPESM<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12553-017-0211-5">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12553-017-0211-5</a>
(freely
accessible)]</span><br>
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cite="mid:56B7CF11-BEB5-42C4-93DE-221D62ECF32C@socialinformatics.org">
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">John Chalcraft (in McKenzie, 2019) of the London School of Economics and Political Science argued that while there were specific and varying triggers for the protests around the world, the existence of "a much wider lack of trust in the political elite, a feeling of crisis of authority, and a wide variety of grievances and feelings of discontent" in Chile, Lebanon, and Hong Kong amplified the initial protests into "sustained protest movements, continuing even after their initial grievance has been met." Le Monde (2019) described the changes as a "planetary demand [to] reconquer democracy.”</pre>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Your particularization
of global discontent, disorder, fragmentations and chaos, leading
to the ending
opinion from <b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Le Monde</i></b>
in the
“Introduction”, which has sought to sum-up all preceding political
upheavals as a “</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">planetary
demand [to] reconquer democracy</span><span style="font-size:
14pt;">”, is both timely and relevant, not only to Privacy
discussions, also to the future of governance systems and their
respective
structures.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> In addition, and
importantly,</span> we must
reflect upon the same, and with good focus - in order to
determine, and to direct - what we 'will do', to ensure the
survival of the "idea
of civilization”, and the critical pathways<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>(that are still left) for "enabling civilization”.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span><br>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:
14pt;">The sentiment from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Le
Monde</i> should be noted appreciably by each of us</span></b><span
style="font-size: 14pt;"> -- not for the sobriety
it proffers into ‘prospects’ for a “<u>reconquering of democracy</u>”,
rather, for the succinct and eloquent exemplification to the
nature of <i>“brokenness”</i> of systems, the
world over, which now demands that we build, NEW novel, pristine,
</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">functional, </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt;">durable, and reliable systems, and their
respective sub-structures for a new era.</span><br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">“Journeys to new terra firma” have been undertaken, but explorers have typically found that the ground is incapable of supporting them. </pre>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Al Tarikh"">Perhaps
you have
mis-understood.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Permit
me to be
explicit.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I have
iterated that "journeys"
to date have been insufficient.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Therefore, by the very nature of the assertion, still
MORE
journeys are essential.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://praxxis.io/xx-network-faq">https://praxxis.io/xx-network-faq</a>
Widespread application of these technologies is a precondition for an understanding of Privacy. However, a proper understanding requires that the new technology supports a new media that is free of elite domination. This can provide the basis for a recapture of physical-space, which we should be prepared for: </pre>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">I
would like to humbly submit, and fundamentally so, that, there is
a vital need for parties to MASTER technology.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>However, a commonly
communicated
impression is: “digital natives” are more
comfortable using technology.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This
may
be so. But, it does not translate to the mastery of it.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And, that which we need, in
all
demographic segments is: MASTERY; not merely someone’s ACCEPTANCE
of tech, or an assurance of a COMFORT-LEVEL in their use of tech.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Al Tarikh"">There
is NO SUBSTITUTE for
TECHNOLOGICAL/TECHNICAL competence - very personally achieved.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Going FORWARD, mastery,
and/or the proven
competence in 'technology utilization' - at various life levels
- will be a firm pre-requisite
to at least being minimally functional, and to being positioned
to compete in the digital universe. A running joke in the 70's
through the 90's had to do with someone's inability to PROGRAM
their VCR.<br>
</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
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style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Al Tarikh"">It
had already been this
way for a long while.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We
had JUST CHOSEN
to ‘not’ acknowledge the need for MASTERY of technology;<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>as it has been
convenient to deny the need, to this point; no further.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> <br>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
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style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Al Tarikh"">Any
'green sprouting', and consequential proliferations of
technology -– in more “apps”, or the likes of “blockchain”
derivatives, could not possibly solve the more
fundamental problems that have been persistent among most users
of technologies.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>At the
moment, we tend to become victims to Privacy invasions and
Security violations due to the absence of 'inherently individual
defenses', and of 'herd immunity', too.</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Al Tarikh""> </span></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Al Tarikh"">We
are at cross-roads now;
and hard choices must be made.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We
live
in <b>a post-industrial world,</b> which urgently demands that
we build within -- robust societal systems, supporting
structures and accompanying practices -- emphasizing greater
participation in <b>the</b> <b>Information Age & the
Information Society</b>; elevating our commitment and our
practices to positively impact "each" in our society. Still,
many deeply embedded within <b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">legacy systems,</i></b>
accomplished with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">associated
legacy mind-sets,</i></b> continue to postulate a fruiting
from a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">4<sup>th</sup>
industrial revolution!</i></b></span></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Al Tarikh""> </span></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Al Tarikh"">Thank
you, for your
patience… </span></p>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">dss
[ ..... ]
David Stodolsky, PhD Institute for Social Informatics
Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dss@socialinformatics.org">dss@socialinformatics.org</a> Tel./Signal: +45 3095 4070
</pre>
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--
<br>
<font color="#b3b3b3"><i>Dr. Robert Mathews, D.Phil.<br>
Principal Technologist &<br>
</i><i>Distinguished Senior Research Scholar</i><i><br>
</i><i>Office of Scientific Inquiry & Applications (OSIA)</i><i><br>
</i><i>University of Hawai'i<br>
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