Everything CIA touches turns into shit x_x
We should really not be allowing our government to operate with such secrecy. It seems inevitable that government organizations, operating in secret, will be used against the people they're ostensibly created to protect.
Let's pin the suspicions on Celia
More: https://www.hoover.org/research/celias-office
MM-P might be the guy you are looking for. True love of Sonia, crush of Simone, disturbingly normal
>His 1947 book, Humanism and Terror, has been widely understood as defense of the Soviet farce trials.
>the (now-lost) thesis La Notion de multiple intelligible chez Plotin ("Plotinus's Notion of the Intelligible Many"),
https://old.reddit.com/r/SWORDS/comments/1bopjmi/crosscultur...
Here’s Tuchman from “The March of Folly:”
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well known examples that they do not need citing; 2) excessive ambition, such as Athens' attempted conquest of Sicily in the Peloponnesian War, Philip II's of England via the Armada, Germany's twice-attempted rule of Europe by a self-conceived master race, Japan's bid for an empire of Asia; 3) incompetence or decadence, as in the case of the late Roman empire, the last Romanovs and the last imperial dynasty of China; and finally 4) folly or perversity. This book is concerned with the last in a specific manifestation; that is, the pursuit of policy contrary to the self-interest of the constituency or state involved. Self-interest is whatever conduces to the welfare or advantage of the body being governed; folly is a policy that in these terms is counter-productive.
I agree, but what can we do, and how. "Democracy" seems to be the most popular answer, except democracy is what brought us this in the first place. Maybe science....is this even on their radar (which covers "everything" so they say)?
Just like Capitalism, that term is too vague to be useful. We could pick 500 people at random, stuff them into congress, and have no elections - that would be democracy. You could have a referendum on everything, and that would be democracy.
To address these kind of issues you have to get into details of what makes a well functioning vs poorly functioning democracy, what are your KPIs - for example, you have only two parties and Byzantine process of selecting candidates, is that antidemocratic and does that allow financial interests undue influence?
I disagree: vagueness of words is very useful, so useful it can keep billions of people (the smarter the better) in a Stockholm Syndrome like situation indefinitely, including defending it against anyone who tried to liberate them.