Engage. Reduce. Incorporate.
Kiam mi parolas esperanto la vortoj sentas malpeza kiel ili flosi sur mia lango. Historio estas tero. Espero estas plumo.
Peace At Last: How the Digital Revolution Killed the Global Prisoner’s Dilemma.
I have the title, now I just need the text. Maybe next year.
A year ago I started writing a philosophy and law paper on America’s criminal and immigrant justice systems. My idea was to tie together what I knew from formal logic, normative ethics, and critical legal theory in order to critique the foundations of these two legal systems. Nine months later, I finished a solid draft. I read it. I hated it.
Then, I sulked. I sulked for two months. It was as if I was holding a child that looked like me but I couldn’t recognize as my own. It’s a terrible feeling to have after nine months. But then came the big “a-ha.”
Whether we like it or not, the Information Age has transformed us. The world is digital. We are digital. Rules are no longer promulgated. They are programmed. Our generation is ordered in code. It thinks in code. It must, therefore, solve its problems in code.
So, I opened up the document and I typed a phrase along the top: Computerized Critical Theory. And I let out a sigh of relief. “Ahh… That’s better.”
