I've been reading about Gandhi a bit lately and have been wondering about his tactics and how they might inform political organization and tactics as the net develops. There are some neat parallels between IP/open source issues and campaigns like the salt march and the drive to use home spun cloth, for example.

This excerpt got me wondering about Gandhi's apparent positions on privacy... it seems that his approach was to embrace total transparency, from what tactics he would use politically to the realities of his personal life. In a couple recent interviews, Bruce Sterling has predicted that Trent Lott-style coups and other political back-biting would become more common as more personal information moves online and becomes easier to parse. His take was that these developments are inevitable (I'm inclined to agree), so I'm wondering what the best way to adapt to that reality might be... might total personal tranparency be the only way? "I don't care that you know I have a Batman fetish, I already blog about it."

It would certainly do a lot of weird shit to the culture, but are we trending in that direction already?