Re: [The League of Ordinary Gentlemen] Comment: "Fallows on Douthat"
Subject: Re: [The League of Ordinary Gentlemen] Comment: "Fallows on Douthat"
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 11/29/10, 17:52
To: Erik Kain <erik.kain@gmail.com>

Well, I do plan to write quite a bit about the subject - including my opinion that anarchism is now far more workable with the communicational environment in which we now live - as Project PM goes forward and continues to confirm my suspicions that a great number of people are willing to join the sort of entity I've created here, and that such an entity need only be designed properly to function and expand perpetually. Let me know if you'd like to sit in on one of our weekly meetings, which we hold on our IRC channel while we wait for the development of the software under which we will eventually operate to be finished by our programmers. You may find it interesting; I've recruited dozens of people, some of them quite prominent and all of them shockingly talented, who have been willing to put a great deal of work into getting this off the ground. And if I can do this, others can too, so my plan is to eventually link up with whatever similar organizations come into existence over the next few decades.

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Erik Kain <erik.kain@gmail.com> wrote:
I like anarchism as an idea quite a lot actually, and mutualism. But I'm not nearly well-versed enough on either.


On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, I've been an anarchist of one sort or another since I was 13 - a practicing one, as the State of Texas could tell you. It was my work on the most recent book and on media criticism in general that drove me to shift my emphasis from writing to developing internet-driven entities designed to address the flaws that arise not only in the state, but in the flow of information as occurs among the various media outlets. Project PM is intended as a sort of human-software hybrid schematic that will continue to incorporate the large number of individuals who have given up on the nation-state array and facilitate their collective and distributed collaboration on issues ranging from scientific literacy to African development.


On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Erik Kain <erik.kain@gmail.com> wrote:
My 'pretty sure' was meant to be snarky but I'm not good at snarky so...you know. C'est la vie.

So I saw you mention you were working from an anarchist's perspective the other day in the comments. Are you really - or was that snark? 

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Barrett Brown <wordpress@ordinary-gentlemen.com> wrote:
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Kain has understated it; not only can one be "pretty sure" of this, but one can in fact be absolutely certain insomuch as that Obama previously spoke out against some of the very same things he is now doing.

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