You can give each other or refuse sympathy points in a network-based counter-reality called "darknet". They are using special glasses to be able to both the real world, enriched by data network augmented reality and the reality of the Darknet perceive. These glasses also allow you to correspond with other participants of the Darknet to initiate smart mobs and control collective decision-making. Like in a computer game, the participants of this network against society while wearing stage name, with which they also appeal to each other. You can reach levels of efficacy in different here, known only in the Darknet professions - the same as in a computer game. Depending on the level a participant in the darknet can hope for support and attention of the other members darknet. The Darknet has its own religion with complicated rituals and even its own currency, which makes its members by fluctuations in the dollar regardless.
A pointer in the center of the darknet glasses clear whether the current state of new democracy goes straight toward tyranny or towards Verpöbelung. A tared relationship between tyranny and mob rule is described by Suarez as a democratic optimum.
True democracy is beyond local democracy for Suarez. Your device is associated with the breaking up of production processes, in which products are created under effort colossal energy costs on a several thousand-kilometer journey. Against Suarez draws a picture of local communities that develop alternative energy resources in a collective effort and thereby to become independent of large corporations. Despite the local roots is Suarez vision of network-democracy but also a global: so is the Internet, for example, the respective current world knowledge in the form of plans, tips etc. all people equally available.
This of Suarez fabulously detailed along imaginary company is anything but child's play and the reset of democracy must prevail against powerful opponents. Suarez calls them by name: the plutocrats there were, who stuck to a world order which, although calling itself democracy, but only serve their profit. These power elites would only leave the field, so that the new democracy can start. The way there is very bloody and it is at times worried if it the author still doing well.
But even the idea of a political change that breaks with brute force path is, in my opinion only part of Suarez thought experiment. It raises the question, how much (we admit it: terrorist) violence is necessary to overthrow a political system, to build a new and protect this. Significantly, the Chosen to exercise terrorist violence by the initiator of the Democratic Revolution cyber character in the countersociety lowest possible sympathy score. That does not prevent him from, wreak gruesome bloodbaths not only among the enemies of the new democracy. Although he has to face the vote of the Internet community, but the sanctions against these professional terrorists are too low to hinder him in his sadistic actions.
Suarez solves this problem in almost hobbesque way: He tells how the darknet Community created a giant avatar named Roy Merritt, who manages to have the darknet terrorists in his place: calling him to a lower Aktivitäslevel suppressed. That this solution to curb violence if necessary may not be sufficient Suarez describes himself when he a character in a computer game can be real at the end of his book: the fictional, but at the same time brutal real-SS officer Heinrich Boerner.
