Today, Larry Lessig posted an incredible lecture and slide presentation he delivered at Stanford, where he is a law professor. Drop everything you are doing and go listen to this now. It is the dawn of a new era of Internet-based politics.
With laser focus, Lessig zeros in on money corruption in American society and fingers the corporations and their coin-operated politicians as the bad actors – but he also indicts the REST OF US for staying silent and tolerating the increasing affronts to reason, justice, and dignity.
Lessig has decided to devote the next decade to fighting the creeping crud of big money corruption of American society, and he is just the man to do it. The most exciting part of his lecture is the hints at solutions that bypass the crooked Congress and “two-party” system. Just as the evolution of Docudharma is heading swiftly toward action-oriented reform, Lessig is advocating new Internet-propagated “norms” to fight corruption. He is a brilliant man, and he will soon figure out how the Net can generate structures, charters, and protocols to begin bypassing the stinking mess that much of the US Government has become.
Just go listen to Lessig. I cannot recommend this speech too highly.