{"id":197,"date":"2009-03-14T12:28:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T18:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/regnskygge.net\/sxsw2009\/?p=41"},"modified":"2009-03-14T12:28:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T18:28:05","slug":"change-v2-lawrence-lessig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Change v2 (Lawrence Lessig)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, 14 March 2009 at 11:30AM<br \/>\nPresenter:\u00a0 Lawrence Lessig - Stanford Law School<\/p>\n<p>This talk is about Trust. It is very difficult to take notes on Lawrence Lessig&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"512\" height=\"384\" data=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/lG3yvRiBolM\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/lG3yvRiBolM\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Following is my feeble attempt to take notes and then I gave up. The video has it all.<\/p>\n<p>Lonely Planet and Wikipedia do not accept money. Why? It is not that money = false, but that money = mistrust.<\/p>\n<p>Example:\u00a0 Huge trust gap between doctors and parents who refuse to vaccinate their children. Money breeds doubts and mistrust.<\/p>\n<p>context &gt; doubts &gt; deadly meme<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;classic tobacco science&#8221; - corrupted science conspiracy theory that is rooted in mistrust<\/p>\n<p>Money poisons trust because it appears to introduce an improper dependence or reason that trumps reason.<\/p>\n<p>Bad government decisions are based upon this dependency.<\/p>\n<p>This talk is difficult to take notes on. I am just going to listen and make the slides available.<\/p>\n<p>Problem is not big gov or deregulation, but the cost of the loss of trust.<\/p>\n<p>The solution he advocates to break the cycle of money&#8217;s influence:\u00a0 citizen funding of congress ONLY. strike4change.org<\/p>\n<p>Al Gore TEDTalk on the &#8220;democracy crisis&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This problem of mistrust created by the government&#8217;s dependency upon improper money should be addressed like an alcohol intervention - the alcoholism is the problem that creates other problems.<\/p>\n<p>References made during his talk:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/change-congress.org\/\">http:\/\/change-congress.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/strike4change.org\/\">http:\/\/strike4change.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maplight.org\/\">http:\/\/maplight.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Book:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Damn-Much-Money-Corrosion-Government\/dp\/0307266540\">So Damn Much Money<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, 14 March 2009 at 11:30AM<br \/>\nPresenter:\u00a0 Lawrence Lessig &#8211; Stanford Law School<br \/>\nThis talk is about Trust. It is very difficult to take notes on Lawrence Lessig&#8217;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 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}