Thursday, January 20, 2005
THIS IS WHY YOU GOTTA LOVE BBC...
The use of fear in contemporary politics is not the result of a conspiracy, the politicians have stumbled on it. In a populist, consumerist age where they found their authority and legitimacy declining dramatically they have simply discovered in the "war on terror" a way of restoring their authority by promising to protect us from something that only they can see.
Read more on this from the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4171213.stm
But the reason that no-one questions the illusion is because this nightmare enemy gives so many groups new power and influence in a cynical age - and not just politicians.
Those with the darkest imaginations have now become the most powerful.
...YOU DECIDE.
Read more on this from the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4171213.stm
But the reason that no-one questions the illusion is because this nightmare enemy gives so many groups new power and influence in a cynical age - and not just politicians.
Those with the darkest imaginations have now become the most powerful.
...YOU DECIDE.
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