From Colin Campbell, who quotes Laurel Papworth, on Google as Big Brother.
Not that anything I write will be much chop - the groundwork has already been done by these boys.
The main contention will be that the State consists of merely the representatives of the sovereign people and the former are charged with doing the people's will and taking charge of the everyday details of services, armed forces et al.
This is not how the State sees it and articles on Post-Democracy which are starting to come out are hugely worrying. Here's a nice treatment of the subject in simple terms, quoting the delightful Richard Rorty.
In the end, the people who constructed the term Social-Construct, concerning that which they oppose, have now another fabricated construct - Post-Democracy and while adopted as a criticism of the New-Statism, is also being utilized by its proponents.
Absolute bollocks, the efficacy of Post-Democracy. I've watched these reptiles for seven years now and you have to hand it to them - they know how to play the people for suckers. Give me the suckers any day over the cold elitism of sociopathic "leaders beyond authority".
The central witness in a California lawsuit against AT&T says the government is vacuuming up billions of e-mails and phone calls as they pass through an AT&T switching station in San Francisco.For the benefit of the Anonymii who have been patiently feeding my comments sections material and awaiting some result, this is most certainly in the process of collation - the theme of micro-control 6 is the slide to and obsession with control by the state.
Mark Klein, a retired AT&T technician, helped connect a device in 2003 that he says diverted and copied onto a government supercomputer every call, e-mail, and Internet site access on AT&T lines.
Not that anything I write will be much chop - the groundwork has already been done by these boys.
The main contention will be that the State consists of merely the representatives of the sovereign people and the former are charged with doing the people's will and taking charge of the everyday details of services, armed forces et al.
This is not how the State sees it and articles on Post-Democracy which are starting to come out are hugely worrying. Here's a nice treatment of the subject in simple terms, quoting the delightful Richard Rorty.
In the end, the people who constructed the term Social-Construct, concerning that which they oppose, have now another fabricated construct - Post-Democracy and while adopted as a criticism of the New-Statism, is also being utilized by its proponents.
Absolute bollocks, the efficacy of Post-Democracy. I've watched these reptiles for seven years now and you have to hand it to them - they know how to play the people for suckers. Give me the suckers any day over the cold elitism of sociopathic "leaders beyond authority".
James,
ReplyDeleteGood post.
There was a paragraph in the document 'Post-democracy in the EU' under your link nice treatment.
Quote: I focus on the impact of internal security measures on the individual security (individual as a citizen whose rights and duties should be granted by state). The proportions of these „two sides of the same coin“, that is state security and individual security, are not always symbiotic but may be contested respectively. I have used the theoretical framework of the Copenhagen school of security studies for researching the state/citizen security relationship (Buzan 1991; Buzan, Waever, de Wilde 1998). unquote.
Therein lies the big problem, that all these academics work on the basis that the State grants you your rights.
It doesn't. You are born with your rights, the state takes the power to restrict them, not grant them.
Yup, Ianp.
ReplyDeleteAs I constantly bang the drum.
You will become the property of the state, to do with as it wishes!
That's what is wrong.
All academics try to be prescriptive.
The law of unintended consequences takes over, and the numb-nuts descend into more prescriptive idiocy.
And they still don't get it.
Sometimes the consequences are not unintended, however.
And that's what makes them pathologically evil.
Chilling, James. I hadn't heard of "post democracy" before.
ReplyDeleteYes, people, let's keep our eye on this one as well.
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