Community | August 01, 2009 | 6 comments

Life Inc: Why everything has been fucked up for the past 600 years.

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYK8z3PVgZ8

asherp
In the fifth lecture in Evan Korth's NYU Computers and Society course featured author, thinker and professor Douglas Rushkoff. His topic:"Open Source Democracy."

In this hour long lecture, he talks about the history of the Corporation, it's tie to centralized monetary policy, and traces it back to it's origins in the Renaissance, and follows it through each step on the way to the current financial meltdown on Wall Street today.
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  • sespian
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      sespian  

    • Unlike Rushkoff, I don't place any hope in Obama. I believe communities should find local leaders to rally around, not the President. Obviously some communities will have better leadership than others, but the more the individuals of poorly lead communities communicate and interact with one another, the better the leadership will become.

      Local leadership and local currency ushered in the most prosperous time in history for the common man. As more people become aware of this fact real "change" can occur.

      Great post asherp! Thanks

    • 2 years ago
  • jubal
  • cztheday
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      cztheday  

    • Yeah, Jackson represented "bottom" up all right. His rise to power is yet another national disgrace we get to bear. The Trail of Tears was one of the most shameful episodes in our nation's history.

      I will admit that AJ stood for tenacity and a stubborn refusal to fail. He had some admirable qualities. Compassion was NOT one of them.

    • 2 years ago
  • KCHARLES
  • Incredulous
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    • The summit at the link is the contemporary version of EXACTLY what Rushkoff is talking about. These guys, not unlike the aristocracy, are worried about losing their corporate control, thus the deal making summit over healthcare reform. This is why you have banks and investment banks represented at a deal-making healthcare summit...they want to create this top-down value and transform healthcare into the new currency. This is also where the tug of war between what the consumer wants and who our representatives need to keep happy is taking place. Do we preserve the right to create our own value, or do we let the corporations take over and top down us again?

      NIH recently did a study calculating the $33.9 billion out-of-pocket people are spending on complementary and alternative medicine. The deal-makers have their eye on that market, and they want to create top down value from it.

      http://nccam.nih.gov/news/camstats/costs/

    • 2 years ago
  • Incredulous
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      Incredulous  

    • "media as the landscape where this interaction takes place and literacy as the ability to participate consciously"?

      guess current.com busts that myth all to hell

      nice post, I like it!

    • 2 years ago
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