Lawrence Lessig is a Modern Day Thomas Jefferson
Is it just me, or do others also see the emerging parallels between Lawrence Lessig and Thomas Jefferson? Both are geeks in the finest sense of the word. Both take a strong interest in political philosophy. And both use the power of their minds and the depth of their convictions to structurally change society, remedying ills of the past.
Lawrence Lessig is known for inventing the Creative Commons. That's just one of his many accomplishments. Now he's launching the Change Congress movement, which officially launched last week.
Lessig thinks and speaks with focused thoughts. You can hear them in this presentation he gave explaining why he's launching Change Congress.
If Thomas Jefferson were to give a presentation today, what would he sound like? He would sound an awful lot like Lawrence Lessig.
What would Jefferson love most about Lessig's ideas? Increased transparency in governmental workings with a concommitant increase in public participation.
The founding fathers and mothers gave us a foundation on which to build on, but they in no way finished building our house. It's time to tear down parts of our house and rebuild it. I have great faith and trust in Lawrence Lessig. He is an architect. He knows how to build social and governmental structures that will last centuries. We ought to follow his lead.
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Glad you are bringing attention to the Change Congress effort.
Combine this effort with a general call for more universal production of media/content and we will go far in healing the ills of the modern day,
Thanks for the post on Lessig. I watched his presentation at the Press Club, and thought it was great. He is bringing attention to, and proposing reasonable solutions to, a problem that more and more of us are becoming aware of -- the idea that legislators have grown far too close to large corporate interests with a clear financial interest in shaping policy, tech and otherwise.