[Bicycle Bob]

Robert Persig makes the point that a political revolution is pointless without a concurrent revolution in thinking. People are so used to the forms that they grew up with that real change is very difficult. After the Russian Revolution, the bureaucracy continued as before. Given the opportunity, they made themselves "more equal" than the others. Top-down, enforced communism does not work. However, if society is organized into groups of a hundred or less who share an economic fate, the people pull together. To keep society overall from delaminating into rich and poor, we need good rules, and elaborate, redundant precautions against corruption. Electronic surveillance should be particularly focussed on people with responsibility to the rest.