Mark Slouka har bedrevet en meget interessant, vellykket og forfriskende anti-autoritær op-ed for Harper's om hvorledes den amerikanske samfundsform, har forvandlet sig fra selvstændighed til tyranni.
Uddrag:
"The real problem we face is not the Bush Administration’s imperial pretensions, its quasi-cultish stress on loyalty, or its instinctive suspicion of debate and dissent but the extent to which the administration’s modus operandi is representative of a society increasingly conversant with the protocols of subservience. In the long term, it is this tilt toward deference, this willingness to hold our tongues and sit on our principles, that truly threatens us, even more than the manifold abuses of this administration, because it makes them possible.
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Tyranny isn’t something up ahead; it’s right here. It’s in the soil, in the very air we breathe. It’s the other climate change, and no less real. The old tyranny, from which we emerged as a nation, has been transformed by the wonder-working ways of time and advertising into a powdered wig, a tricorn hat, and the God-given freedom to burn hot dogs; the new tyranny, meanwhile—infinitely more dangerous, Made in America—looms just ahead, so large as to be very nearly invisible.
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Lincoln had it right: “If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher.” We’re off to a fine start."
Resten kan læses her: http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/06/0082039
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