The greatest dangers are the most insidious. Seemingly benign.
And people often tend to believe what it suits them to believe.
It's the pseudo-sophisticated generalizations by which people covertly are blind to the fact that their worldview in essence divides the world into the simplistic classical categories of 'good' vs 'evil'.
And by which people do or spread 'evil' in the deluded name of 'good'.
For example in Religion typically the presentation of a kind of extended family where everybody of a particular faith are viewed as brothers and sisters under the ruling hand of a stern but fair and loving almighty father figure. In a secular society where the 'old' religious family is seen as antiquated, perhaps an implicit new family picture is implied subliminally. (The implications of which, possibly provide an enriched viewpoint in creating sense of our present-day 'orphaned' situation)
"People at this camp don't want fame, they don't even want to be photographed. The majority of us prefer to be ANONYMOUS"
As the Twitter co-creator returns to activism, his fellow hackers question the techniques he brings from Silicon Valley.
Evan Henshaw-Plath is a coder, activist, anarchist, and a hacker. He is also one of the original developers of Twitter.
Programmers are like digital superheroes. Everybody else gets to use the technology, the reality in which we play, but the programmers get to reshape the rules, the physics of our digital universe.
Evan Henshaw-Plath
Henshaw-Plath believes that as a tech activist his role is to promote social justice and he is keen to empower civil society to affect politics through the use of software. He explains how TxTMob, a platform that enabled protesters to send text messages to large groups anonymously, formed the basis of Twitter.
But when he came to the realisation that Twitter was not the world-changing idea he had hoped it would be, he sold his share.
Now bridging the worlds of hackers, activists and Silicon Valley start-ups, he's on a mission: to use the techniques he has learned in the world of lean start-ups to support the technology being developed by activist groups.
The technologies he's trying to promote are all about allowing people to have truly have secure communications, and his attempts to use Silicon Valley techniques provoke resistance from his radical colleagues.
Can Evan convince the activists to steal from the capitalists in the name of efficacy or is that a political compromise too far?
'Steal from the Capitalists' can be seen on Al Jazeera English from November 23 at 2230 GMT
Why 'make money' when you can accumulate wealth on a mega scale simply by extending credit? Whereby each loan itself becomes money in for the bank! Money that previously never even existed before. Prior to the creation of each and numerous debt.
Under the cover of technological science a new arrogance repeats precisely what it accuses pre-scientific ways of understanding of doing. Only the new tendency is to bring everything low.
