After the recent revelations about DEA snooping, I guessed the NSA would have to be involved. Hm. Not necessarily. Not when you have AT&T at your right hand. (Via Sipsey Street.)
And how strange have things gotten — how very, very strange? — when you try to reach the Secretary of State and after gradually climbing the bureaucratic ladder, you end up getting a callback from Eric Schmidt’s girlfriend instead? Happened to Julian Assange. And does not appear to have been “an isolated incident.”
How much longer can this corrupt, rotten, secrecy-obsessed corporate-state UberGovernment center hold?
I like that poem, but this line irritates me:
“Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world”
It’s not anarchy that is the problem… of course he meant “chaos” but why didn’t he say it? I guess the poem was written when “anarchy” meant “bomb throwing”.
Paul: The bane of my political discussions is that every time I mention anarchy I have to define it, then explain it, then defend it, then continue with the matter at hand.
Re anarchy/anarchism — Same here. For years I continued using “libertarian” because people at least didn’t think “bomb thrower” when they heard the term (though they sometimes, for many years, thought “libertine” or “librarian,” sigh). I finally decided to hell with it and started calling myself an anarchist.
I figure nobody’s going to think “bomb thrower” or “window smasher” when they see a silver-haired woman calling herself an anarchist.
I still frequently use “libertarian,” or even “extreme libertarian,” depending on whom I’m talking to.
Isn’t anarchism only a negation of politics, and thus not a bill of wares proposing how humans should arrange themselves politically?