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Currents 096: Jim & Michael Garfield Talk About Everything
The Jim Rutt Show
The Techno Optimism of Cyberspace
A major mistake of our civilization is to have given up on the skill of dealing naturally and organically with each other at this ground level and building commons. The idea that a government of 350 million people whose headquarters is 1000 miles away should be making any determination about what you do in your local community strikes me as nuts. That's not how humans have historically lived. Even John Perry Barlow himself admits that this was a lunacy, it's like high on new technology.
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