What we need first, more than the end of capitalism or statism or any other ism, is real transparency. We need people's vision of what's going on in the world unobscured by government/corporate/financial secrecy and propaganda. Once we can see, we can figure things out from there
How can we navigate toward a healthy world when we can't even see what's happening? Militaries understand that you need intelligence before you can act efficaciously; you need to see/know what you're dealing with. Truth is hidden and obscured from us, precisely for this reason.
That's what Assange was going for when he founded WikiLeaks: a tool to help the people see and know what's going on in the world so we can act in an informed way.
That's also why he's in prison.
That's also why he's in prison.
The exact opposite. Total privacy for the individual, radical transparency for the powerful. Any secrecy for any power structure is completely illegitimate, and should not be accepted by those it holds power over.
https://twitter.com/dereksiegel/status/1419880037260480514?s=20
The amount of power one is given should have a directly inverse relationship with the amount of secrecy they are allowed to have. Power with secrecy is illegitimate. If you've got power over people you don't get to keep secrets from them.
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