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Sunday, 23 January 2011
CREEPY-CRAWLY STUFF ... when I start looking over my shoulder
A friend who is younger than me informs me that:
"Hierarchy is better than Anarchy (which becomes hierarchy without any rights very quickly)."
My response (should this then be in "Finger-down-throat" again? Why do I *always* have to go for the ideals instead of the reality? Maybe I just need therapy of some sort):
"Hierarchy which becomes self-serving is skating close to fascism. And that's why all politicians and governments in democratic countries must respond to sensibilities and discourse as well as data and threat, and, of course, legal procedures and constitutional rights. Without then giving the impression that when complied with, this is in some way something to be praised as a virtue. The law is the law. Compliance is a prerequisite, not a cherry on the cake. That's what living in democracy means. If not, it's no longer democracy."
[Editor's note: first published on the 25th January 2003.]
"Hierarchy is better than Anarchy (which becomes hierarchy without any rights very quickly)."
My response (should this then be in "Finger-down-throat" again? Why do I *always* have to go for the ideals instead of the reality? Maybe I just need therapy of some sort):
"Hierarchy which becomes self-serving is skating close to fascism. And that's why all politicians and governments in democratic countries must respond to sensibilities and discourse as well as data and threat, and, of course, legal procedures and constitutional rights. Without then giving the impression that when complied with, this is in some way something to be praised as a virtue. The law is the law. Compliance is a prerequisite, not a cherry on the cake. That's what living in democracy means. If not, it's no longer democracy."
[Editor's note: first published on the 25th January 2003.]
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