> The idea that decision-making can happen "everywhere" with no location, no
> sifting, no representation, and so on is a lovely anarchist conceit that
> just conceals different hierarchies of privileged position in the
> information and decision-making web. The explicit top-down structure of
> decision-making in classic representational and centralized political
> processes is far more democratic by its very transparency.
>
> -- Nathan Newman
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What a great tangent. The explicit top-down structure you allude to is the problem. Can you say "the military".
Ian