[p2p-research] Google gets into the DNS business

[Kevin Carson]

On 12/6/09, Paul D. Fernhout <pdfernhout at kurtz-fernhout.com> wrote:

>  Really, if everyone nullified bad laws in the jury box, everyones stopped
> buying lots of junky products (or  good products produced in unsustainable
> ways), and everyone would vote only for truly progressive candidates, we
> would not be needing to have this discussion. How long would the war on
> drugs last if, say, juries stopped convicting people on drug charges?

Well, sure.  And if your aunt had testicles....

It's been a commonplace observation at least since Hume that the power
of even the most authoritarian governments rests on the willingness of
a majority of the  population to obey.  When that willingness
evaporates, someone like Ceaucescu can fall overnight.

Why
> don't people do those things? Good question -- the beginning of knowledge,
> perhaps. What is about people's beliefs that get them to act that way, to
> support bad laws, bad products, and problematical politicians? (Compulsory
> school is part of that, most likely, according to John Taylor Gatto.)

I think it's a lot broader than that.  More generally, every form of
class society, every system  of domination, rests on a cultural
reproduction apparatus that generates the kind of human raw material
the system needs for its survival.  Not just compulsory school, but
the rest of the educational/propaganda functions of our society,
including the mainstream press, and enculturation within most
families.

For the first time, though, network culture is creating a situation in
which the transaction costs of challenging "consensus reality" are
virtually zero.  Just compare the scale of opposition to the 2003 Iraq
war, and the speed with which they arose, with the situation in the
Gulf War of 1990-91 in pre-Internet times.
http://c4ss.org/content/1520
-- 
Kevin Carson
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