tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post4476044572878053522..comments2023-04-11T09:46:53.479+00:00Comments on anticant's arena: So what's new?anticanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-68054873201417409322007-05-07T13:33:00.000+00:002007-05-07T13:33:00.000+00:00ACTUALLY, The problem of elites is to know what /w...ACTUALLY, The problem of elites is to know what /we/ are like, really. They actually may be quite puzzled & have the need to peer around so much quite simply because they are bemused. Hence all of the voyeuristic spying & CCTV-hokum. It is really /not/ about raising cash with speed-cameras as much as it is real curiosity. Next, they'll be selling one another fortnights on benefit in council-estates. /a la/ Marie Antoinette & her cow-girls....<BR/><BR/>s/Wook, The Shaper of To-morrow's Tourism-industryBodwyn Wookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04152813177593209096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-62119883961731094242007-05-06T05:55:00.000+00:002007-05-06T05:55:00.000+00:00Orwell's thoughts have been overshadowed by realit...Orwell's thoughts have been overshadowed by reality and the article is right when it says that the system is applied to the whole population.<BR/><BR/>The incumbent élite can be superseded and the Big Brother's eye today watches everything and everybody.<BR/><BR/>And not only the population is watched, the élite also is.Josehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02081096450259201426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-53021654721733776432007-05-05T17:25:00.000+00:002007-05-05T17:25:00.000+00:00CONSTITUTIONAL Theory recognises that 'consent of ...CONSTITUTIONAL Theory recognises that 'consent of the governed' is a chimaera. Thus, /consent/ is the more-accurately to be inferred, through both structural & explicit guarantees in constitutions, from /a priori/ 'rights'. Rights guaranteed & guarantees enforced by an independent judiciary, it follows then, in the political /arenae/ of the democracies, that the daily & fluid /priority/ of rights collides in the legislative, administrative and judicial dance. The 'power-drive' therefore is not to be discouraged in constitutional individuals (citizens, /eg/); but, rather, had ought to be fostered by educations that convey personal ensembles of /competency/; and, with these, the idea that one /individually/ in life has something to discover and to do; all grounded in explicit constitutional knowledge that enforces the ethical concept of a creative 'responsibility to act freely'.<BR/><BR/>ALAS, This all is now addressed to the survivors of the 21st century die-back, /amin/.<BR/><BR/>Wook, constitutional mahometan & fatal realist<BR/><BR/>PS: There is, in America at least, a load of rubbish & belly-aching about 'activist' judges. Properly speaking, all judges /are/ constitutional activators, /NB/.Bodwyn Wookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04152813177593209096noreply@blogger.com