The difference with intelligence work today is, where yesterday the concern was with stealing each others secrets, today the focus is on gaining control of government operations and controls and/ or interfering with same.
What make intel operatives so potent is the fact that, when these people decide what to do, they have way more resources and finances than the citizens they may want to target.
Let's face the fact that by having an extremely capitalist society, where people figure their value or worth in terms of how much money they have. Well, it's truly hard to see why quite a number of people would be willing to do just about anything for pay.
That creates a very serious collection of problems for any society that hopes of preserving individual rights, you know, the very thing that made America famous.
While we know that everyone likes being free, there are few if any reason why the masses require freedom over the short term. History shows that, although people will rebell after their rulers become excessively dspotic, their tolerance of totalitarianism is high enough as to be almost indistinguishable from being their preferred form of governance. At least this is what we are learning from the way America is playing out its hand. Choosing the comfortable story rather than the harsh and less palatable truth, is the path to dictatorship, always.
Trump is a symtom of a dying democracy. Leading, as he does, a party that values a "win-at-all-cost", strategy. Damming the carefully devised rules that allowed us all to unite behind a Constitution that gave us a common cause. To now rip up the rules and pass laws that foment division, increasingly centralize power in ever fewer hands of unqualified people. That is a sur fire recipe for disaster of democratic republics everywhere.
What make intel operatives so potent is the fact that, when these people decide what to do, they have way more resources and finances than the citizens they may want to target.
Let's face the fact that by having an extremely capitalist society, where people figure their value or worth in terms of how much money they have. Well, it's truly hard to see why quite a number of people would be willing to do just about anything for pay.
That creates a very serious collection of problems for any society that hopes of preserving individual rights, you know, the very thing that made America famous.
While we know that everyone likes being free, there are few if any reason why the masses require freedom over the short term. History shows that, although people will rebell after their rulers become excessively dspotic, their tolerance of totalitarianism is high enough as to be almost indistinguishable from being their preferred form of governance. At least this is what we are learning from the way America is playing out its hand. Choosing the comfortable story rather than the harsh and less palatable truth, is the path to dictatorship, always.
Trump is a symtom of a dying democracy. Leading, as he does, a party that values a "win-at-all-cost", strategy. Damming the carefully devised rules that allowed us all to unite behind a Constitution that gave us a common cause. To now rip up the rules and pass laws that foment division, increasingly centralize power in ever fewer hands of unqualified people. That is a sur fire recipe for disaster of democratic republics everywhere.
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