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Re-branding Dissent<\/a><\/h3>\n
I am one of those who thinks that democracy is being destroyed. \u00a0I know its fashionable to play cynical one-upmanship and say \u2013 \u2018we\u2019ve never had democracy\u2019, or, \u2018it was destroyed long ago\u2019, \u00a0but that game aside, I think its worth actually thinking about how,\u00a0many\u00a0forms of democratic expression, effective dissent\u00a0and peaceful self-determination are being buried.<\/div>\n
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In\u00a0\u201cThe Next Crisis\u201d<\/a>\u00a0I argued that the Global Over-Class have decided that Democracy is a threat to their wealth and power and have more than likely given some thought to how best to neuter it while appearing to do no such thing. \u00a0I suggested they would wish to keep the outward form of democracy, so as to keep us reassured and entertained, but remove any substance from it, leaving us with an empty but colourful stage show.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0part two<\/a>\u00a0 of the series, I offered a list of the various ways this could be done (a sort of manifesto for the Over Class or, as I have called them elsewhere,\u00a0The Disloyal<\/a>\u00a0and noted how many of those things were clearly already underway.<\/p>\n

For example item three of the manifesto said,<\/p>\n

3) professionalized Governance. Democracy can be and must be neutered, and an effective way of doing this is to insist that amateur, elected officials MUST take the advice of professional (read corporate) advisors. Expand current law to enforce this.<\/p>\n

If this seems monstrous now, their argument, I suspect, \u00a0will be that in an increasingly crowded, interconnected and globalised world we can no longer leave critically important decisions in the hands of the uneducated, in-expert and amateur. \u00a0We must, of course, still be free to choose but must, from now on, be helped to choose \u2018wisely\u2019. And how can we choose wisely if we aren\u2019t given wise choices to choose from? \u00a0Oh, the Orwellian beauty of it! No prizes for guessing who will decide what is and what is not wise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Re-branding Dissent I am one of those who thinks that democracy is being destroyed. \u00a0I know its fashionable to play cynical one-upmanship and say \u2013 \u2018we\u2019ve never had democracy\u2019, or, \u2018it was destroyed long ago\u2019, \u00a0but that game aside, I think its worth actually thinking about how,\u00a0many\u00a0forms of democratic expression, effective dissent\u00a0and peaceful self-determination are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[204,6992,3979,11395,643,868],"class_list":["post-15904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-democracy","tag-golem-xiv","tag-governance","tag-overclass","tag-power","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15905,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15904\/revisions\/15905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}