Thoughts on Hacktivism by Jesse Hirsh

It would appear that the most important, if not essential aspect of surviving in this 'post-Y2K' society has become the task of "Understanding Reality". That is to say, our society has reached such a high level of media saturation, that reality is not so much an objective experience, but more a subjective construct facilitated by a sprawling economy that combines telecommunications, computers, marketing, and entertainment, to generate a facility that more and more permits the customization of reality, when and where possible. Power in this system manifests as the ability to control, contain, maintain, and escape one's constructed reality. As with most political systems, power is centralized and continuously accumulated into the hands of the few, while the appearance of distributed wealth is enabled by the reality of distributed computing and communications. For every remote control there is the illusion of change, even when we all know that everything is the same, regardless of the channel.

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