Stephie’s Reviews > Australia Under Surveillance: How Should We Act? > Status Update

"...'The marketplace of ideas': the concept that the competition of ideas progresses the society through eradication of error, rethinking, correction and change. It is, in a way, an extension of the free market philosophy to the intellectual realm, except hat some exponents of the free market do not believe in free-ranging, robust freedom of expression."

"...it could be that terrorist attacks become an ugly part of Western life that we have to learn to live with. In the view of a former U.S. vice-president, Dick Cheney, it is already the 'new normal'. It could be that the West, if not defeated, is brought to stasis and withdraws, if not collapses, into fortress-like, authoritarian sub-states and sub-communities."