The Plot Against America

[pat_k]

21. It's the "friction" through which collective will is made manifest.

The tech obsession with "frictionless" systems and breaking the means by which we the people influence the levers of power has a single goal: Render our system of government incapable of making our collective will manifest and incapable of execution and enforcement.

We the People must be cut out of the equation as "friction" because we may be apt to do things like reverse the vast accumulation of wealth in the hands of the few at the expense of the many. Those at the pinnacle of the power/wealth pyramid who believe their place there is theirs by right are using any and every means at their disposal to break us.

We WILL not let them. I choose to pin my hopes on my fellow Americans, however misguided so many of them are right now. I think that truly lasting change comes from the bottom up, not the top down. And more and more of us at the bottom are entering the arena and saying "hell no" to their wrecking ball.