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... For those reading carefully, this essay will come across as familiar in one respect. Each wave of repression is tied to a particular kind of state. The reformation repression is the feudal state, the absolutist the mercantile state, the victorian the national state, the modern the market state. The modern rested on the huge speed and surplus gain of mechanization and broad based electrification, controlled through reduction. However the problem with its totalitarianism is that it had to ruthlessly repress the very thing that was becoming powerful: information. The information state beat the energy state in combat. It was code breaking and design that delivered the blows to right wing totalitarian states, and it was the premier terror weapon of the information state - the atomic weapon that finished it off. It also created the seeds of the next kind of repressive state, the one which we are now dealing with the more and more obvious expression of. ... _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
