I hope what mseebach is predicting happens, but I do think something will eventually end up happening.
Every week it seems I hear of impossible to enforce laws trying to regulate behavior or thought. (just today, trying to make open source using countries suspect, everyone is probably a federal criminal, etc) Trying to fight technology with regulation (drm, dmca, etc). I hear misleading announcements every morning on my commute saying the police have the right to search me without cause. (They can't unless you agree, yet.)
In the past 10 years things like this seem to be escalating and technology seems to have sped it up. Loosely and with a grain of salt; Content filtering and monitoring lead to tor, unjust laws lead to the EFF and ACLU, censorship of news lead to wikileaks, etc.
People will eventually get radicalized, wont they?
Honestly I probably don't know my history very well, maybe this is just SOP for humanity, a constant back and forth.
Just do us a favor, if something does start happening and you do opt out, don't make it harder on the rest of us. ;-)
> People will eventually get radicalized, wont they?
Young people get radicalized. Then they get married, have kids, get a career, get debts, etc. Radicalness over. People eventually sell-out, cop-out, or join up. They rarely stay radicalized.
That is SOP for humanity at least last 80 years or so that I know about.
Then there are the times when otherwise solidly middle class people become radicalised by financial hardship and capricious and unfair actions of government and financial institutions. When the stable productive core of society is getting dislocated from it's niche and starts to see it's relatively moderate level of privilege erode; that is when you get transformational violence across broad sectors of society.
If you want to argue historical examples, both the french revolution and the rise of fascism in Europe followed this pattern.
Every week it seems I hear of impossible to enforce laws trying to regulate behavior or thought. (just today, trying to make open source using countries suspect, everyone is probably a federal criminal, etc) Trying to fight technology with regulation (drm, dmca, etc). I hear misleading announcements every morning on my commute saying the police have the right to search me without cause. (They can't unless you agree, yet.)
In the past 10 years things like this seem to be escalating and technology seems to have sped it up. Loosely and with a grain of salt; Content filtering and monitoring lead to tor, unjust laws lead to the EFF and ACLU, censorship of news lead to wikileaks, etc.
People will eventually get radicalized, wont they?
Honestly I probably don't know my history very well, maybe this is just SOP for humanity, a constant back and forth.
Just do us a favor, if something does start happening and you do opt out, don't make it harder on the rest of us. ;-)