The traditional system is creaking and tottering
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2025 3:52 am
This week, the dying traditional system also took action against Kim Dotcom’s MegaUpload empire. The FBI raided several offices of the popular file-sharing site. With great showmanship, Kim’s fleet of expensive cars was seized. The Mercedes, Maseratis, Rolls-Royces and Lamborghinis were adorned with narcissistic license plates with striking names such as “Good,” “Evil,” “CEO,” “God,” “Stoned,” “Mafia,” “Hacker,” and “Guilty.” Apparently, Kim had seen the writing on the wall. The most striking in this regard was the B(l)itz-Krieg of the digital counterculture Anonymous. By simply providing a link to an online DDOS tool, they managed to mobilize almost ten thousand sympathizers – consciously and unconsciously – to activate the Low Orbit Ion Cannon application.
Traditional systems are creaking and tottering in 2012, the year that we can already declare a B(l)itz-Krieg year in week 4! A deep culture clash underlies the actions of digital subcultures such as Facebook, Craigslist, Wikipedia and also Occupy. Add to that the militant countercultures of Anonymous, LulzSec and Wikileaks, and the result is a resounding bit war against the traditional system. The trend is clear: digital subcultures and countercultures force existing systems to take the next step in their own evolution and that of humanity. Those who are not able or willing to take this step will eventually and irrevocably collapse.
Digital Commons
This next step in the evolution of the System, the new digital collaboration between the System, brother cell phone list Digital Subcultures and Countercultures, we call Digital Commons. This is a new constellation, in which the economic possibilities of the System, the social desirability from the various interest groups and the possibilities of the new digital tools come together. The Digital Commons – individuals and organizations plus the digital commons they use – form new blueprints in their development. For the healthcare sector, the energy sector, education, government, retail and every other economic sector. To reach a higher socio-economic and social level of prosperity and well-being together. “Tech” is leading here: the combination of digital technology, economy, culture and historical development!
Traditional systems are creaking and tottering in 2012, the year that we can already declare a B(l)itz-Krieg year in week 4! A deep culture clash underlies the actions of digital subcultures such as Facebook, Craigslist, Wikipedia and also Occupy. Add to that the militant countercultures of Anonymous, LulzSec and Wikileaks, and the result is a resounding bit war against the traditional system. The trend is clear: digital subcultures and countercultures force existing systems to take the next step in their own evolution and that of humanity. Those who are not able or willing to take this step will eventually and irrevocably collapse.
Digital Commons
This next step in the evolution of the System, the new digital collaboration between the System, brother cell phone list Digital Subcultures and Countercultures, we call Digital Commons. This is a new constellation, in which the economic possibilities of the System, the social desirability from the various interest groups and the possibilities of the new digital tools come together. The Digital Commons – individuals and organizations plus the digital commons they use – form new blueprints in their development. For the healthcare sector, the energy sector, education, government, retail and every other economic sector. To reach a higher socio-economic and social level of prosperity and well-being together. “Tech” is leading here: the combination of digital technology, economy, culture and historical development!