tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post114770832839814695..comments2023-09-15T09:56:16.253-03:00Comments on Composing: Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-1147721930461194162006-05-15T16:38:00.000-03:002006-05-15T16:38:00.000-03:00After you're brief hiatus it seems you're on a te...After you're brief hiatus it seems you're on a tear. Your recent activity has been very interesting, but there's a whole lot to process.<BR/><BR/>I'm confused by this: "You'll misunderstand the whole thing if you see "islamism" as some kind of sui generis unique evil." It seems to me that "islamism" is a subset of a broader phenomena, so I'm not sure what part is sui generis?<BR/><BR/>John Robb's post on this http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/<BR/>globalguerrillas/2006/05/<BR/>journal_brazils.html<BR/><BR/>Talks about the pressure which may be brought to bare against the city's business class to wrestle power over the favela. So then the gangs will have to govern? What will that look like?<BR/><BR/>Obviously I don't have a handle, so I hope you'll take my ramblings in your stride. But going through today's posts there are a couple of others that connect in some way--I haven't figured out how--to this.<BR/><BR/>First Dave Pollard's look at the coming Great Depression and Fourth Turning predictions. Pollard predicts the collapse of the Internet as fallout--shocking.<BR/><BR/>Second in re USA domestic politics ABC writing about the massive NSA database of phone records and how they are being used to monitor journalists http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/<BR/>2006/05/federal_source_.html<BR/><BR/>A commenter made a good observation: "What is even scarier, is who is doing the monitoring. It's not just the NSA, NRO, DIA etc... Look who is working for these govt agencies. There's been a lot of outsourcing of intelligence jobs."<BR/><BR/>I guess what makes me scratch my head is how global corporations will interact with governments and the gangs. Robb's enthusiasm for private militaries isn't something that goes down easily for me.<BR/><BR/>Goodness knows I don't expect a response to my random musings. I simply mean to state that you've really been getting to the root of things. <BR/><BR/>So one final bit. Pollard noted that when punching into Google Trends http://blogs.salon.com/<BR/>0002007/2006/05/13.html#a1525 popular blog memes they don't raise a blip. <BR/><BR/>In the face of big systems changes clearly individuals can only do a little. Nevertheless the instruments of peer production are extraordinarily important. The peerosphere doesn't Google, but I hardly imagine it doesn't exist.John Powershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17126222842766191343noreply@blogger.com