People are confused by Assange apparently attacking one US political party and then switching to attack the other party.
What's missing is an understanding of his underlying motivations. This piece hints at it, but it doesn't quite get there.
Assange sees the existing power structure as a connected graph that requires secrecy to function.
His objective is to sever or degrade the links between nodes in the graph by exposing secrets.
Information flows from conspirator to conspirator. Not every
conspirator trusts or knows every other conspirator even though
all are connected. Some are on the fringe of the conspiracy,
others are central and communicate with many conspirators and others
still may know only two conspirators but be a bridge between
important sections or groupings of the conspiracy.
If all conspirators are assassinated or all the links between
them are destroyed, then a conspiracy no longer exists. This
usually requires more resources than we can deploy, so we ask our
first question: What is the minimum number of links that must be
cut to separate the conspiracy into two groups of equal number?
(divide and conquer).
When we look at an authoritarian conspiracy as a whole, we see
a system of interacting organs, a beast with arteries and veins whose
blood may be thickened and slowed until it falls, stupefied;
unable to sufficiently comprehend and control the forces in its
environment.
What's missing is an understanding of his underlying motivations. This piece hints at it, but it doesn't quite get there.
Assange sees the existing power structure as a connected graph that requires secrecy to function.
His objective is to sever or degrade the links between nodes in the graph by exposing secrets.
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