The New Freedom

February 13, 2011 Leave a comment

There is something noble about government leaders accepting the new freedom, transparency and openness of the internet and social media, not as instruments of political obfuscation.

…Ancient and authoritarian regimes told people what they must think and do; modern societies enable and ennoble citizens to do what they want to do, alone and together. Publicness is a progression to greater freedom but that freedom is often used to collect into new societies.

via Public Parts: atomize & reform « BuzzMachine.

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Unknown's avatarAbout Stephen E. McGaughey
Resident of the City of Coral Gables; Formerly with Inter-American Development Bank, Senior Environmental Project and Policy Leaders, Agricultural Economics, Forest Sector Projects and Policies, Country Representative Financing in El Salvador and the Dominican Republic

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