Traditionally the #oligarchs survey the field for competition, zero-sum game in mind. (Yes, of course M$ and FUD … paradigmatic.) The point our bright children have internalized is this: we cannot further projects that exceed our capabilities. In an eat/be-eaten scenario positioning is paramount.

Not having social cred in an online conversation is like showing up to a cocktail party with severe body-odor … it doesn’t much matter what you have to contribute to the conversation.

Oh, hey, I came up with this on Twitter yesterday evening: “”Business is a conversation and $$ is the punchline to a joke”, of course. And with personality politics like in high-school we end up with economic activity that enforces culturla xenophobia”. (Ok, my previous version was 140 or less, but point stands.)

I did a survey of social-justice sites in this oil-wealthy city … abominable … humiliating to the industry … barely Web0.7a at best.

All of this is precisely what I realized mid-September 1973, when I pondered how our projection of power entailed tumbling democratic governments: if democracy doesn’t count, what matter my ability?