"If the veil of secrecy was ever ripped away from the US empire's inner workings and everyone could see the full scale of its criminality in the plain light of day you'd probably have immediate open revolution in Washington. Which is precisely why that veil exists."
This is why we can't stop ripping off that veil. We can't let what's happening to Julian Assange and to others make us timid. We need to continue speaking up and speaking out and doing our best to find out what's really happening behind the scenes and expose them all. To give up and give in to those who have flourished behind the veil is to essentially commit suicide. Let's not play by their sick and twisted rules.
That's kind of the core issue I believe. Why it is such a horrible thing (and crime) and whole groups of people band together when one person is murdered but when the Criminal Elite call for war to kill thousands or even millions that same group doesn't make a peep!? What the hell is wrong with our brains?
Really, I think a huge amount of information is available. The world is permeated with channels through which information flows as never before in history.
It's terrific for scientific literature search. It used to be you had to live close to a major university to do anything and even that was slow and spotty.
It gives fantastic access to the world's music. You have to do all the search yourself though, which few do. In the old days a DJ picked out the good stuff for you. Long time gone. Same for the other arts I suppose.
Wikipedia is very good in its way but paper encyclopedias are far better for browsing. That's pretty much impossible with Wiki.
One thing that has been widely noticed about the new Internet world is that it's very hard to hide anything, even from casual browsers, much less determined, focused investigators. Hence I would say that we have already ripped down the veils of secrecy from almost everything. The other important thing is that in principle almost anyone can communicate almost anything to anyone else. I suppose we might consider having public truth conventions to compare notes. Of course they'd be full of liars, fabulists, and scam artists, but some of those people and their constructions can be quite amusing. Anyone up for one in the New York City area?
"If the veil of secrecy was ever ripped away from the US empire's inner workings and everyone could see the full scale of its criminality in the plain light of day you'd probably have immediate open revolution in Washington. Which is precisely why that veil exists."
This is why we can't stop ripping off that veil. We can't let what's happening to Julian Assange and to others make us timid. We need to continue speaking up and speaking out and doing our best to find out what's really happening behind the scenes and expose them all. To give up and give in to those who have flourished behind the veil is to essentially commit suicide. Let's not play by their sick and twisted rules.
Who said that? IF Stone? Daniel Ellsberg?
The people seem to be completely all right with gvt criminality as long as they feel it benefits them in some way. This is called "the rule of law."
That's kind of the core issue I believe. Why it is such a horrible thing (and crime) and whole groups of people band together when one person is murdered but when the Criminal Elite call for war to kill thousands or even millions that same group doesn't make a peep!? What the hell is wrong with our brains?
One person is a soul. A million people is a statistic.
I find it weird but this is how it is.
Really, I think a huge amount of information is available. The world is permeated with channels through which information flows as never before in history.
It's terrific for scientific literature search. It used to be you had to live close to a major university to do anything and even that was slow and spotty.
It gives fantastic access to the world's music. You have to do all the search yourself though, which few do. In the old days a DJ picked out the good stuff for you. Long time gone. Same for the other arts I suppose.
Wikipedia is very good in its way but paper encyclopedias are far better for browsing. That's pretty much impossible with Wiki.
One thing that has been widely noticed about the new Internet world is that it's very hard to hide anything, even from casual browsers, much less determined, focused investigators. Hence I would say that we have already ripped down the veils of secrecy from almost everything. The other important thing is that in principle almost anyone can communicate almost anything to anyone else. I suppose we might consider having public truth conventions to compare notes. Of course they'd be full of liars, fabulists, and scam artists, but some of those people and their constructions can be quite amusing. Anyone up for one in the New York City area?