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The case is informative because it shows how the generations of struggle depend on the scale you are looking at. Looked at one way, Public Citizen is engaging in a 4G campaign against aggressive legal threats on speech. But in another way, Public Citizen is a 5G organization, essentially unconcerned with the fate of DirectBuy or Dozier Internet Law, and looking to change the rules of the game under which the company and the lawyers operate This is because “generations” just measure the degree of kinetic dispersal, and a broader perspective provies more diffusion of the actions.
Posted by Dan tdaxp on Oct 8, 2007 10:15 PM
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I have to ask: What the heck are you saying in that string of letters? ;)
Very nice distinction, btw, utilizing scales and observation. Reminds me a bit of the classroom example in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire re: the Imperius Curse. “How do we sort out the liars?” was the phrase, I think, or something like it. How do we sort out an organization; is it merely 4GW or is it 5GW? But remember, carry-over happens between the generations, so it could be 5GW which employs 4GW (4GW style attacks may be more effective against groups who still react to 4GW per the 4GW dynamic. Whereas, you can’t shame an organization that is beyond shame or beyond the effects brought about by being made to look bad.)
Haha!
“a broader frame of reference allows one to see more dispersion.”
I wonder if the xGW model only makes sense in the context of scale, in the same way that temperature only makes sense in the context of heat-over-area.
Certainly the higher you go in the XGW framework the more the strategic outlook becomes the paramount consideration. Perhaps this extends even to the point where 5GW may not even have a tactical level but instead co-opts actors from previous generations to effect its operations and strategies.
I have written about issues arising from the controversy at my blog Phatic Communion:
“Free Speech and Copyright”
That has given me a chance to branch out from the xGW considerations, move a bit more toward the philosophical and away from the legal; but alas, the legal and xGW considerations have crept in…