TED - Lawrence Lessig: The unstoppable walk to political reform

TED Lessig index

"May the ideals of one boy unite one nation behind one critical idea that we are one people, we are the people who were promised a government, a government that was promised to be dependent upon the people alone, the people, who, as Madison told us, meant not the rich more than the poor."

TED-2014-Lessig-PoliticalReform

• a heartfelt reminder to never give up hope. 当幸福来敲门
• Lawrence Lessig has already transformed intellectual-property law with his Creative Commons innovation. Now he's focused on an even bigger problem: The US' broken political system. 知识产权 -> 政治系统

A chip, a Poet, and A Boy

1. A chip (1994 Intel Pentium)

• billions of dollars in our society was spent to address a problem which would come once out of every 360 billion calculations.

2. A poet (Martin Niemöller)

• "First they came for the communists, and I did nothing, did not speak out because I was not a communist. Then they came for the socialists. Then they came for the trade unions. Then they came for the Jews. And then they came for me. But there was no one left to speak for me." TED-2014-Snowden-Internet :Your rights matter because you never know when you're going to need them.
• an insight at the core of intelligence. We could call it cluefulness. It's a certain kind of test: Can you recognize an underlying threat and respond? Can you save yourself or save your kind? Turns out ants are pretty good at this. Can you see the pattern? Can you see a pattern and then recognize and do something about it? 互联网的前景如此明亮，以至于不得不戴上墨镜。

3. A boy (Aaron Swartz)

• I said, "Yeah, as an academic, it's not my field."
  He said, "What about as a citizen? As a citizen."
• there is a flaw at the core of the operating system of this democracy.

Political movement

• Doris Haddock, aka Granny D. On January 1, 1999, 15 years ago, at the age of 88, Granny D started a walk. She started in Los Angeles and began to walk to Washington, D.C. with a single sign on her chest that said, "campaign finance reform."
• on January 11, the anniversary of Aaron's death, we began a walk that ended on January 24th, the day that Granny D was born. $\underline{ Aaron Swartz（November \;8, 1986 — January \;11, 2013）}$, $\underline{Doris Haddock (January \; 24, 1910 – March \;9, 2010）}$
• But when you give people the sense of hope, you begin to thaw that absolute sense of impossibility. 哀莫大于心死
• May the ideals of one boy unite one nation behind one critical idea that we are one people, we are the people who were promised a government, a government that was promised to be dependent upon the people alone, the people, who, as Madison told us, meant not the rich more than the poor. "Who are to be the electors of the federal representatives? Not the rich, more than the poor; not the learned, more than the ignorant; not the haughty heirs of distinguished names, more than the humble sons of obscurity and unpropitious fortune."