Well, you bring up one major problem with democratic living in a messy and physical world. How do we maintain liberty and still get the highways built? Who do you call when the Libertyville sewers back up? I don't have a good answer.
To return to the subject of power being information, though: this assertion is a joke among underpaid librarians with graduate degrees in information. unless, of course, your definition of power goes beyond Making Other People Do Things...
Well, you bring up one major problem with democratic living in a messy and physical world. How do we maintain liberty and still get the highways built? Who do you call when the Libertyville sewers back up? I don't have a good answer. To return to the subject of power being information, though: this assertion is a joke among underpaid librarians with graduate degrees in information. unless, of course, your definition of power goes beyond Making Other People Do Things...