Beyond Brand Obama
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We are pleased to re-post this essay from Douglas Rushkoff, author of many books on digital society and culture, include Open Source Democracy. Nothing against Barack Obama, but we’d be mistaken to consider his politics a complete break from the past, a renaissance in participatory government, or the realization of an Internet-enabled “open source” democracy. He’s pretty damn good, don’t get me wrong, and he may just represent the closest thing yet to a GenX, post-boomer, anti-sentimental and
