Since the collapse of state socialism, and the unleashing of speculative capitalism, societies are increasingly being governed by a politics of fear. Watch this Open Society Session by Prof Kees van der Pijl
The silver lining is the acceleration of the development of 'parallel society' alternatives across the board. With destruction comes new beginnings. We live in a watershed moment in history.
The ‘permanent state of emergency’ (German: der permanente Ausnahmezustand) was one of the ideological tenets adopted by the Nazi regime. You can, if you will, go back even further in history and find that more often than not totalitarian rule is founded on some ‘real’ but exaggerated, or even completely imagined ‘crisis’ that needs a solution.
The silver lining is the acceleration of the development of 'parallel society' alternatives across the board. With destruction comes new beginnings. We live in a watershed moment in history.
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The ‘permanent state of emergency’ (German: der permanente Ausnahmezustand) was one of the ideological tenets adopted by the Nazi regime. You can, if you will, go back even further in history and find that more often than not totalitarian rule is founded on some ‘real’ but exaggerated, or even completely imagined ‘crisis’ that needs a solution.