the greatest power that you can hold in any society is the power of storytelling - the position where other people are looking to you to know what is true and what is false, and interpret events around from US. The Internet completely upsets the previous holders of this power, and much of the conflict on the net can be traced to this power -. Specifically the transition to this
To understand how important this is, you can try to ask this hypothetical question to a friend: if they got to write the news for a week, and all the world would accept what was claimed in the news as a full and indisputable truth, what would they write
those? who think in terms of exploitation of the situation came up with the idea of writing they are rich, they have the attractive property, they are desirable personally, and so on. This misses the point by a wide margin.
If you control what is true and false, you do not do need money. Or anything else, ever. You have a position where you can do all of humanity want to provide all your needs on a whim. You can choose a demi-god among men - .. And that's exactly how this power has traditionally been used or abused
We call this power to maintain Power of Narrative
illustrate what happens in the transitions of this power. In the 14th century, books in Europe have been copied laboriously by hand by monks and nuns in monasteries. This meant the Catholic Church had absolute control over what books existed, and of course, all were in Latin.
The 1453 printing press broke it, but it was not obvious at first. It took a minister named Martin Luther to start protest against the abuses of power of Narrative - in particular, details which affirmed Catholic Church they had the ability to forgive sins in exchange for sums of money. This detail is that history books tend to focus on, but the bigger picture is the possibility of claiming something unverifiably first.
Remember, the Bible was in Latin. There was in Latin. And only the clergy could read Latin and therefore, tell the masses what the Bible says. This is exactly the power imagined earlier in this article -. The ability to say anything and took to unquestionably true
Thus, the real shock came with the so-called Gutenberg Bibles, Bibles printed by cartloads in French and German, which began to appear in the streets. At this point, completely panicked Catholic Church, because all of a sudden, people could read and check the allegations. The church was no longer necessary to read the Bible in Latin. This meant that the Church had lost the ability to interpret the text to its own advantage
This led to 0 years of civil war across the known world -. The so-called "religious wars" - such as the power of transition story several times.
So why do printing of the Bible in a different language, a common language, leading to civil war two centuries? Because the Church had lost goalkeeper position on the knowledge and culture of mankind.
The use of these technologies has been increasingly repressed, with tougher sanctions, until they reach death. Yes, using a printing press at all - make an unauthorized copy -. Was punished by death in a law enacted in France on January 13, 1535. The official justification was "to prevent the spread of dangerous ideas"
... now it all feel familiar in respect of today Internet disturbance of the old guard?
This is the perspective that must be applied where the authorities demand the right to inspect what people are talking about, to determine what ideas just where to go and where. To identify people who spread dangerous ideas - all this mean for current powers that be. To restrict the flow of information to and from various sites and people where ideas become too difficult.
"Record companies are not really afraid of you put their music on YouTube. They are afraid of you put your music on YouTube, without ever asking permission," as a well-illustrated colleague.
the copyright industry is a small player in this transition They are just the first skirmish -.. the level of tutorial, if you like the politicians do not care what the music is being played - but they do not care if they can not control the finances (Bitcoin) and the newsflow
This is why every small effort to save the current decentralization issues ideas This is a.. Therefore, each fighting for privacy is important (not the only reason, but still). This is why the Internet must be defended. This is why governments must be kept out of our computers, cameras and phones and why we must defend encryption.
Hopefully this transition of power Narrative can be made more orderly than 0 years of civil war.
Privacy remains your own responsibility.
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