Monday, August 25, 2008

Join the Revolution Against the Man


"The Man" exists, and controls our world and our lives. No I'm not crazy or paranoid, but do bear with me as I elaborate.

"The Man" is basically the alpha male of our society. Humans, like many mammals are a hierarchal organized species. We naturally organize ourselves through levels of dominance, and seek to dominate those below us, and increase our level of standing within our societies hierarchy. This holds for both males and females, "The Man" is not just men, but also women. Women also strive to be the alpha female.

"The Man" is not a single person, but everyone who seeks and obtains power, a desire to dominate others. "The Man" was responsible for slavery, for colonialism, for invasions and wars of aggression, for social injustice, for racism and sexism. "The Man" continues to be a major force for ill in our world today, "The Man" is responsible for the destruction of the environment, the continued widening of the poverty gap, the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, genocide in Darfur, global warming, exploitation and slaughter of animals, and the fattening of America and the world. "The Man" is everywhere, even inside all of us.

There are ways to fight "The Man". We did abolish slavery, we created democracy, we ended the era of colonialism, we created the United Nations, we gave all humans equal legal rights, we created socialism, public health care, old age and unemployment security, welfare.

But we have a long way to go to end "The Man"'s dominion over our society. As long as we continue to organize ourselves in a hierarchical structure "The Man" will continue to have power.


I do have faith that our world is changing, and the very fabric of our species organization for more than one million years is changing. The Internet and massive online collaboration is changing the very nature of our existence. At the heart of this change is the Open Source movement. Although this started out as a computer software movement, it is quickly migrating into every aspect of our lives.

In the "Open Source" world, "The Man" looses power. In software, "The Man" no longer owns the rights of the software, they no longer control its direction, or have a monopoly on its support and servicing.

Wikipedia has open sourced all information, Freebase seeks to open source all knowledge, Blogs, Digg, YouTube and other such services have open sourced the media, "The Man" no longer controls what news we hear, no longer decides who's opinion we should listen to.

In media, Indie Music, Youtube seek to remove "The Man"'s control of what we listen to, what we watch.

We can do more, we can "Open Source" our schools, the government, religion, business, our whole society.

Everyone can fight "The Man", some simple things you can do:


The revolution has begun, join us and reorganize the world for the better.

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