11 February 2013

property should come with a warning

WARNING: The accumulation of property, wealth, and general luxury, has been known to (frequently) cause severely negative changes in ideology.

03 February 2013

scared into fascism

Is the fear of new threats, that might be introduced by upcoming technological revolutions, being used to argue for this trend to fascism and anti-privacy we're seeing such a drastic increase in? ..

..like the possible large scale threats that single individuals might present in a world with both synthetic biology and a free and open internet ...

if so, how do we argue otherwise?