What I like about the idea is that democracy is visually portrayed as something delicious. It's a horrible sound when the blender starts going, and if it were a totalitarian state, what gory limbs might end up displayed on the plate? But, with this we get something that is not any of the fruit shown before, but rather the flavors of each.
One thought: watching Iran vote, and suddenly seeing this once-closed nation explode in hundreds of independent voices. It's amazing that a person who was holding a camera at the baji cops charging Tehran University can someone transmit that experience to a person in a dozen time zones away, in Jackson, Tennessee. To people in any time zone, all together within a few minutes of loading the video onto a site like YouTube. I saw Charlie Rose interviewing people like Nico Pitney, and considering how it takes only a second to embed a YouTube video onto a blog, then it makes it nearly impossible for that video to be censored by government forces. It's easy to type "youtube.com" into a government filter, but if they wanted to block the videos from Iran that are visible on my site--me simply embedding the link onto it-- then they'd have to type in : "http://peacecorpsben.blogspot.com/" and if they did that, then I could create a new blog site in less than sixty seconds and add the same videos there in less time. In order to achieve censorship, the regime would then have to instead shut down the entire internet, something that would collapse the economy to an even worse degree, since it is used there in all of the economy's daily operations.
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