I’ve just read your post from last year - https://edgeryders.eu/blog/how-can-innovators-progress-with-confidence-when-they-see-responses-to-pirate-bay-aaron-swartz
This passage stood out:
“It is therefor hardly surprising that the rise in social innovation seems to coincide with both a drop of membership and participation in structured political processes and organisations as well as a rise in protest movements. They are the citizenry’s response to deep structural and ideological ruptures between how political institutions and new generations envision change. The more institutions are receptive to this, the better for everyone. Because it builds in activists a story of “we can do this together”. And government can channel intellectual support in solving hard problems. If, however, institutions fail to read these changes or resist them, is is unlikely young people will simply go back to using traditional participation channels. It is much more likely that they will defect to hacking society directly or just exit. In order to facilitate the work of shaping the collective future in a more sustainable direction, bottom up, we have to build our own support systems, as the existing power structures are failing to generate credible responses to the trio of crises threatening our future. The reason being that we can’t really use the ones that are there.”