Anderson failed miserably as an interviewer as well.

Well, that was underwhelming; a colossal waste of
electrons

Listening to a few minutes of Mr Lessig’s
talk gave me no indication that he has
anything significant to say.  To lump
together the Occupy movement, Tea Party and
Move-on is bizarre.  Occupy has a real
adversary, the corporate, ruling elite. Tea
Party has an conjured one, big government. 
Move-on has a master, the Democratic Party. 
They have nothing in common.  The Occupy
movement, contrary to Mr Lessig’s view, can
offer no hope.  It has no common program
and no executive capable of forming one. 
It has the classic problem of anarchism: no
one can lead.  As soon as a leader rises
from the movement, it is no long anarchism
and the members fly apart in all
directions.  Such a movement is like Marx
without Lenin: one would have to wait fifty
years for the proletariat to get the idea,
Lenin taught.

This is exactly what I’d expect to see coming out of Harvard - the leading
manufacturer of future power elite automatons. Lessig cannot identify the “enemy”
of both the left and right as his factory’s bosses and owners. He calls it corruption,
well then, who are the corruptors and who helps produce them?

Obama is a Harvard grad. And he DID deal with all the issues he said he would
deal with as a Harvard grad would. Solutions to the global corporate and financial
industry coup of government will not be coming out of Harvard.

If anything “corruption in politics” is an all too late revelation by very few people
overall in THIS country. A majority of Americans will have to physically experience
much more suffering under coming austerity measures before they acknowledge
there is a problem, but they will not be blaming “corruption in politics” if the
power elite has a say in the matter.

Solutions…. Do you really believe an “outsider” alliance with the Tea Party (insider)
and OWS to get money out of politics will get the job done? How will the Koch’s
feel about that? How about the reality of what’s already happening: attempts to
co-opt OWS by the Dems and OWS being infiltrated and watched by the police
state?

The best outcome we can hope for with a Lessig solution is for the power elite to
throw us a few crumbs to keep us forever dumb and happy. But I don’t think they
can even find that much cynical compassion in their avaricious hearts. There very
well may be some kind of change that happens somewhere, but it won’t be here.
Only sovereign nations that can kick the IMF out and control their own resources
will have a fighting chance. But then you know; we’ll be coming after them.