On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:00 BST Barrett Brown wrote:
>My long-term intent here is to trick a large number of erudite and honest
>individuals who would never seek power on their own into collectively
>wielding it. Obviously, if I just came out and said that I am establishing
>an procedural anarcho-technocracy with the purpose of subverting or
>overthrowing various flawed institutions while gradually accumulating soft
>power and taking on new objectives and otherwise serving as a distributed
>shadow government that will only grow as time goes on, many of the people
>I'm after would be disinclined to join, either because they're not
>interested in power or because they wrongly think that such an idea would
>not work. So I recruit by pointing to our work on devising new methods of
>information flow, improving science journalism, etc, and I get well-meaning
>people of the sort who *should* be holding power and influence but who are
>either disinclined to seek it for themselves or would never achieve it under
>the existing system or both. Obviously, there is more to it, but that is the
>gist. Only a few people know about this, including Michael Hastings and
>Barry Eisler.
>
>On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:56 PM,
emilieduchatelet8@yahoo.co.uk <
>
emilieduchatelet8@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>> Dear Barrett, I am going to make something to eat. In the meantime if you'd
>> like to reply regarding THE SECRET of Project Penetrate eMma, I'd be most
>> delighted. I think you're amazing by the way.
>>
>> I called this Emmas's Bottom because I think it will be funny to get and
>> email called this.
>>
>> ps I miss you a lot.
>>
>> Lots of Love and all that stuff you normally avoid, from Emma xxxxx
>>
>>
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>Regards,
>
>Barrett Brown
>512-560-2302