28
Oct/07
Corruption of Politics
Lawrence Lessig explains why his new focus is on USA corruption. He is concerned about the government, which in his view don’t even get basic facts correct, because of money corruption. Even in obvious topics as the minimum amount of nutrition children need.
First thing that has got to happen is that People have got to see, this is the most important issue. Not that it is more important than global warming, but we are only ever going to solve problems like global warming when we fix this. (…) Even if I’m absolute convinced we’re going to fail (fixing corruption), that is no reason not to fight. Because right now, if we don’t begin to build the momentum to solve this problem, at least my country is .. hopeless. And this is why I set the next ten years on this.
[Youtube - 7 min.]
From Danish TV, DR2 Deadline News, Oct. 4th 2007
Note: Lessig did made sure that his arguments are still put forward in the copyright discussion by others.
Author: Administrator Barnhard Blog
Date: October 28th, 2007
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