On 1/13/2015 7:34 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
Really? On this list? Where? I read criticism of the NSA, of Obama, of
U.S.
foreign policy everywhere. There's a whole industry built around it on
radio.
That sort of criticism is innocuous and everyone knows it. The powerful are not
threatened by that sort of stuff. They probably even like it, it only reinforces the
two-party system.
What they are threatened is by people openly discussing experiences with things that the
social norms forbid. This guarantees, especially for political candidates, that only the
most bland social-norm-abiding candidates will ever make it to power. And thus we are
dead-locked into total conformity.
So in what way are you forced to conform? Do you want to have sex with sheep? Do you
want to shoot up heroin? Do you want print your own money? Do you want to own a machine
gun? I know email lists where all those things are discussed. There is no loss of
freedom if you are merely forbidden to do something you never wanted to do anyway? Of
course political candidates are bland and social-norm-abiding. What would you expect in a
democracy? Are you hoping for Le Pen or Emerson or some new Hitler?
Brent
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