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0 pointspdkl9512y ago0 comments

What Mr. Lessig is doing, I believe, isn't about "campaign financing".

This is about waking people up to the idea that they can change things. There's a deep apathy an general defeatist attitude in most of the country because people have watched things spiral out of their control far too often.

It doesn't mater what the cause is; campaign finance is just one of problems that, at least in some areas. It'll help, but the goal is to remind people that you can fight back.

This is about giving the a victor, for moral sake, and we need a LOT more people pulling a Howard Beale on corruption in general.

/me walks over to window

(clears thought)

/me sticks head outside, and yells

I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANY MORE!!

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izendejas12y ago

Yes and no. I've certainly reduced what Lessig states to what I found the most fitting way to summarize the problem he describes, but the corruption in the system really comes down to that as he so clearly explains towards the end of the video by marching in New Hampshire for campaign finance reform.

Many people don't participate because they don't feel represented until the issue affects them directly (NIMBY politics), yet there are countless issues in which we are affected as citizens because we let lobbyists and those that fund campaigns dictate legislation.

Many people here are always raging about patent law, copyright law, etc. Those were all Lessig's causes until Aaron Swartz made him realize that all the powerful interests have the legislators by the balls, so until that gets fixed, progress on any other front will be difficult.

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