Coming from a humanities background, I think that some of the justifications you make in your text are too far-fetching, comming from something that seems-philosophical and natural-sciency all at once, I don't thionk that is really neccessary.<div>
<br></div><div>Other than that I agree, however. In the end we are for tw0 things, mainly: Freedom of information and speech (+safeguarding of civil rights, but that's almost the same in politics), and an overhaul of the political process.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Philip Hunt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cabalamat@googlemail.com">cabalamat@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I think that the idea that knowledge is power, and therefore if we<br>
want something approximating equality of power, then we must have<br>
equality of knowledge, is one that most pirates would agree with.<br>
<br>
I suspect that there is also broad agreement that liquid democracy is,<br>
on the whole, a good idea.<br>
<br>
Other that that, I expect that the way pirate ideology will develop is<br>
that various pirate partiesd will expend their policies -- either<br>
gradually or quickly -- and out of that process we'll find out that<br>
pirates (defined as people attracyted to our core issues such as<br>
copyright law etc) also have a lot more in common.<br>
<br>
When the various pirate parties have large manifestoes they will also<br>
copy each others ideas, and thus in a natural from-below way a set of<br>
policies will emerge that different pirate parties agree on (of<br>
course, we won't agree on everything, and that's OK). From that set of<br>
policies, an underlying ideology will emerge.<br>
<br>
That's not to say that it's pointless for you or Rick falkvinge or any<br>
other Pirate to talk about or formulate ideologies; doing so is useful<br>
because it give us an opportunity to reflect upon what we are, and can<br>
lead us to propose particular policies,<br>
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Philip Hunt, <<a href="mailto:cabalamat@gmail.com">cabalamat@gmail.com</a>><br>
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