Saturday, 14 March 2009 at 11:30AM
Presenter: Lawrence Lessig - Stanford Law School
This talk is about Trust. It is very difficult to take notes on Lawrence Lessig’s talks. That is and remains to be why I have not pursued my law degree at Stanford. He is brilliant to just listen to and watch. Here is his talk taken from another presentation recording. If/when the SXSW version becomes available, I will replace it.
Following is my feeble attempt to take notes and then I gave up. The video has it all.
Lonely Planet and Wikipedia do not accept money. Why? It is not that money = false, but that money = mistrust.
Example: Huge trust gap between doctors and parents who refuse to vaccinate their children. Money breeds doubts and mistrust.
context > doubts > deadly meme
“classic tobacco science” - corrupted science conspiracy theory that is rooted in mistrust
Money poisons trust because it appears to introduce an improper dependence or reason that trumps reason.
Bad government decisions are based upon this dependency.
This talk is difficult to take notes on. I am just going to listen and make the slides available.
Problem is not big gov or deregulation, but the cost of the loss of trust.
The solution he advocates to break the cycle of money’s influence: citizen funding of congress ONLY. strike4change.org
Al Gore TEDTalk on the “democracy crisis”
This problem of mistrust created by the government’s dependency upon improper money should be addressed like an alcohol intervention - the alcoholism is the problem that creates other problems.
References made during his talk: