{"id":3299,"date":"2014-11-08T15:25:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T21:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2014-11-08T15:31:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T21:31:11","slug":"lawrence-lessig-berlin-family-lectures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2014\/11\/08\/lawrence-lessig-berlin-family-lectures\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Lessig \/ Berlin Family Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/berlinfamilylectures.uchicago.edu\/page\/video-gallery\">A remarkable series of lectures at the University of Chicago by Lawrence Lessig<\/a> on the notion of legal, institutional corruption and how it relates to the problems and pathologies of today\u2019s American political system. Long-form video to be sure but well worth the investment, IMHO.<\/p>\n<p>From the closing remarks to lecture one (in which he defines his notion of <em>corruption<\/em> and how it relates to Congress and the Constitution):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8230; we are externalizing our problem on them, on our children.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I don\u2019t think we\u2019re evil for doing that. I think we\u2019re just pathetic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We\u2019re not actively taking something from our kids. We\u2019re just sitting by doing nothing as this corruption corrupts their future.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We\u2019re not the Nazis in this story. We\u2019re the good Germans.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And somehow, we have to find a way to recognize responsibility, here. We have to find a way to act on it. And the first step is understanding, understanding that there is an evil that even good people cause by allowing the essential institutions of a free society to become corrupted. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Because that\u2019s what we have done. And that\u2019s what we must change.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There are five lectures on five different corruption-related topics (this first one on Congress). Videos are <a href=\"https:\/\/berlinfamilylectures.uchicago.edu\/page\/video-gallery\">online<\/a>. One down for me, four to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A remarkable series of lectures at the University of Chicago by Lawrence Lessig on the notion of legal, institutional corruption and how it relates to the problems and pathologies of today\u2019s American political system. Long-form video to be sure but well worth the investment, IMHO. From the closing remarks to lecture one (in which he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[135,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3305,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions\/3305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}