Julian Sans Soleil

Nov 29, 2010 15:23


[...] He had come to understand the defining human struggle not as left versus right, or faith versus reason, but as individual versus institution. As a student of Kafka, Koestler, and Solzhenitsyn, he believed that truth, creativity, love, and compassion are corrupted by institutional hierarchies, and by "patronage networks"--one of his favorite expressions--that contort the human spirit. He sketched out a manifesto of sorts, titled Conspiracy as Governance, which sought to apply graph theory to politics. Assange wrote that illegitimate governance was by definition conspiratorial--the product of functionaries in "collaborative secrecy, working to the detriment of a population." He argued that, when a regime’s lines of internal communication are disrupted, the information flow among conspirators must dwindle, and that, as the flow approaches zero, the conspiracy dissolves. Leaks were an instrument of information warfare. [...]
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wikileaks, all you can eat, bloody knuckles

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