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here, the point is that, as the ground control station (GCS) is not located at the battlefield on enemy's soil,
there is no need to secure the legislative branch's approval to go to war; indeed, such operations are
maintained by "civil" authorities rather than by military... therefore, in this shadow politics, the powers in
dusk is the destined dual of the darker power that be; interestingly, they also feed from the same matrix as
their dual antagonist and thus constitute a cohabitating, mutually interacting "system", as in the case of the
master/slave relation exposed by Hegel ...
a
duality
hypothesis
more elaborate features are at work in this dual system; the duality hypothesis simply asserts that in any
cohabitated "system" of mutually interacting constituents, the focus of power/force will be challenged by
a reactive counter element that operates "at the same order of magnitude" and also feeds from the "same
matrix of resources"... these two criteria are a necessary condition for the existence/survival of the original
power/force as their absence would otherwise lead to an impossible positive feedback mechanism, readily
exhausting the available resources of the matrix (in more practical terms and in familiar contexts, this
phenomenon is called the escalation game)... in the case of contemporary supercentralization and its
reactive dual NGS's, they exploit the same information and communications technologies and media, the
same visibility/invisibility conditions (covert operations, encryption, anonymous initiatives, etc.) and the
same appeal to the legitimacy permitted and enfranchised by the society's ever dynamic contract...
from
peer
review
to
mass
review
such an emergence of the powers in dusk can be seen as the participatory involvement of the masses in the
grand process of exposing the truth (the right to know), and consequently the right to judge and act as
facilitated by this newly created/discovered mass review mechanism; indeed, it is comparable to the well
known "peer-review" mechanism of a rigorously defined domain: the scientific discourse... the production
of scientific knowledge of and information about the reality, and/or facts, is usually entrusted to the
science establishment which has created, in time, the provisional "peer-review" and the subsequent
"academic community scrutinization" mechanisms to ensure a (relatively) impartial objective evaluation;
this is much acceptable than the endorsement and/or enunciation by a single authority; this was not the
case, until recently, in the political sphere: because information is predominantly gathered, filtered,
classified and disseminated under strict government supervision! (although effective to a certain extent,
the Fourth Estate's recognition and influence is quite questionable); however, thanks to the bidirectional
opportunities offered by the contemporary "technology", the rules of the game now seems to have at least
the potential to change...
can
you
floodlight
the
dusk?
anonymity is a fundamental right; more than that, it is also a basic need for the survival of humanity...
therefore, the cybe park where people can gather, discuss, share and interact anonymously without the fear
of being hunted down, must be preserved and protected in the name of collective wisdom and public
interest, as the several faces of the cybe park, be it some instrument of open politics, citizen journalism,
participatory democracy, etc., are legitimate developments du jour! this dynamics cannot be challenged by
the "center"... both the emergence and persistence of "the dusk" are, as a consequence of the duality
hypothesis, a necessary outcome of internal conditions (tensions) that will almost always follow any new
positioning of the power that be at some escalated level of the game... no, it cannot be floodlighted!
the
next
thing
the indispensable jump of the escalation game to the cyberspace can be interpreted as a natural
consequence of humankind's insatiable appetite for extending its territory and it seems it has never been
short of opportunities in this the next thing game it has been exploring and conquering the planet
since the 15th century; in the second half of 20th century the near space and the cyberspace were new
targets of interest, (probably, the interplanetary space is next in line for the next and subsequent
centuries); however, the cyberspace has a special status as it is also, concomitantly, the realm of the
extension of the species Homo sapiens itself; thus, it has far reaching existential implications for its
individual and social essence, and day-to-day practical organization of social life
by the way, as goes the appetite, in accordance with the duality hypothesis, the extension or expansion of
the theater does not matter, at all the game and the rules remain almost the same, it is only the bar that
gets raised...