Power of the Powerless Flashcards
1
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What dissent comes from?
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The unnacceptable, brutal, arbitrary application of power eliminating expressions of nonconformity.
2
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Why nonconformity hits a wall?
A
Political structures so ossified nonconformity cannot be implemented.
3
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How we describe our current system?
A
Dictatorship of political bereaucracy, over a society made homogenous.
4
Q
Why dictatorship is a mischaracterisation?
A
Implies open, unilateral ruler, bound with the lives who establish it., armed by its soldiers and police, only threatened by another dictator.
5
Q
How we charcaterise our system, as non-dictatorial, but similar?
A
Within a global, unifying power - non local - few global superpowers structuring manipulatory instruments sub-bordinating all to its interests.
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