On 04/11/2014 10:07 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 09:50 -0700, glen wrote:
And it's not really money that the "haves"
have... it's the agility (and other salient attributes) to manipulate
the new social manifold.
What is the alternative?
Well, they come in 2 categories:
1) regressive - go back to things like royalty or landedness, or
2) experiment and analyze for the types of manifolds that lead to
more/good symmetry, then support those.
Lumping all of (2) into "oh well, we just have to live with it" seems a
bit defeatist. And claiming that _all_ openness is always a good thing
seems a bit naive, as well. Admitting that some types of openness
amplify undesirable asymmetries (including security through obscurity)
seems to me like a progressive step forward.
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⇒⇐ glen
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