Democracy, which may have worked well in its infancy in Greece, where assemblies of the people in city squares could discuss issues and come to a conclusion, is now showing its limitations. Connectors is what they have been called by Malcolm Gladwell in his book The Tipping Point - How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference , in recognition of their special role. After the family unit proper, which is a special kind of group, based on the desire for sexual reproduction and the raising of a “new crop” of humans, tribes are the smallest natural groups in which we humans find safety and comfort.

Costas Douzinas “Greece is in the eye of a profiteering storm,” Papandreou complained at his broadcast. He was referring to the reduction of Greece’s credit rating by three non-accountable private companies and the subsequent market speculation on Greek bonds financing the deficit, which led interest rates on sovereign borrowing to rise 4% above baseline. There is no doubt that public sector employment and patronage have been used by Below is a first excerpt from a very important, crucial editorial by Costas Douzinas in the Guardian, which calls for resistance against EU/IMF imposed policies which have already a record of destroying many economies.

Another great thoughtpiece in Kevin Kelly ’s Technium series, about the role of extropy in the universe. The bits are like the “atoms” of classical Greece: the tiniest constituent of existence. He concludes with a presentation of his hypothesis of information mysticism: “Most people can appreciate how the essence of living things might be information and order. Information is vague enough to be similar to the idea of a “spirit.”