To an increasing extent, social movements such as those ongoing in Spain –and
elsewhere in Europe and the world- are becoming a conscious opportunity
for exploring new paths for democracy. These explorations seem not to
be the result of any technological fate, but rather a feat of
sociotechnical change, with some concrete antecedents.
You may have not heard about it yet, but you´ll probably hear about it
soon: there are civil protests going on in Spain, and they’re getting
bigger and louder each minute, on and offline.
The United States recently
made an important public policy change with the passage of the new health care
initiative. It passed, but not without
the opposition mobilizing all of its resources to block it. I wonder how things might have been different
in this debate had we had a REAL enemy…
