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"A NEW IMAGE
In absence of specialized institutions, Common Interest eludes Public Opinion and is managed by a specialized, irresponsible class.
Democratic theory: Trying to control government at the source -> downstream decisions invisible
THE BUYING PUBLIC
Economics of news -> democratic theory demands truth is not earned but given gratis -> newspapers beholden to buying public and advertisers" — Jan 23, 2026 02:57AM
"A NEW IMAGE
In absence of specialized institutions, Common Interest eludes Public Opinion and is managed by a specialized, irresponsible class.
Democratic theory: Trying to control government at the source -> downstream decisions invisible
THE BUYING PUBLIC
Economics of news -> democratic theory demands truth is not earned but given gratis -> newspapers beholden to buying public and advertisers" — Jan 23, 2026 02:57AM
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"Summary
For families of theories of Power
Two theories of sovereignty - justify Power by right, by God or by the people, center of command. Nominalist, allergic to absorption of man. Divine Right implies immutable law, others make law mutable.
Organic theories - justify Power by its end, moral and material cohesion of society, a zone of light or an organ
Theories start hostile to Power and end up helping it." — Mar 28, 2024 12:30AM
"Summary
For families of theories of Power
Two theories of sovereignty - justify Power by right, by God or by the people, center of command. Nominalist, allergic to absorption of man. Divine Right implies immutable law, others make law mutable.
Organic theories - justify Power by its end, moral and material cohesion of society, a zone of light or an organ
Theories start hostile to Power and end up helping it." — Mar 28, 2024 12:30AM
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"Why did Truman reject an approach many thought was likely to end the war?
Imperial cult - unconditional surrender directly threatened the emperor
Origins of unconditional surrender terminology - Casablanca 1943
Surrender needs imperial sanction
Truman gives more carefully worded speech on May 8
Navy Captain Ellis Zacharias - presidential statement explaining unconditional surrender - Forrestal and Leahy approve." — Jul 31, 2023 06:19AM
"Why did Truman reject an approach many thought was likely to end the war?
Imperial cult - unconditional surrender directly threatened the emperor
Origins of unconditional surrender terminology - Casablanca 1943
Surrender needs imperial sanction
Truman gives more carefully worded speech on May 8
Navy Captain Ellis Zacharias - presidential statement explaining unconditional surrender - Forrestal and Leahy approve." — Jul 31, 2023 06:19AM
“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”
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“Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.”
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“We need’ is always code for ‘I want.”
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“We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.”
― On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth
― On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth
“Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.”
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