On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Tom Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know that there is ONE big problem. I can see several. The one I > find particularly fascinating (and disturbing) is how the existence of an > institutional infrastructure for repression creates a set of incentives and > constituencies that are independent of any overt will to dominate. The > profitability and growth of contractors like Booz Allen Hamilton depend in > the long run on some sort of "metric of success." So if they ever run out of > one kind of "terrorist," they'll just have to find a substitute. And they > will. ========================= "I’m running out of enemies. I’m down to Castro and Kim Il Sung." [Colin Powell] What was Schumpeter's quote about the search for/need for enemies? Carl Schmitt is laughing at the ACLU. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
