LOGICAL POLICY, RES.- The USFG should substantially increase alternative energy incentives in the US

"Can we imagine another form of humanity, and another form of power? The bio-sovereignty described by Agamben is so fluid as to appear irresistible. Yet Agamben never suggests this order is necessary. Bio-sovereignty results from a particular and contingent history, and it requires certain conditions. Sovereign power, as Agamben describes it, finds its grounds in specific coordinates of life, which it then places in a relation of indeterminacy. What defies sovereign power is a life that cannot be reduced to those determinations: a life "that can never be separated from its form, a life in which it is never possible to isolate something such as naked life. " In his earlier Coming Community, Agamben describes this alternative life as "whatever being."" It is because I agree with Proffesor Caldwell on the premise that there is a way to combat bio-power that I offer the below case. INHERENCY: A. This energy is all around us every day and there is no hope for it leaving on its own anytime soon. What energy is this that I speak of? The energy of the human being, not as an individual but the energy of the human in mass. This energy has been defined as biopower or the power of life. All around us every day we are being controlled by the sovereign but this is no longer the sovereign of old. In olden times if one stepped out of line the sovereign would simply dispatch said person but now that we live in a world defined by reason and opportunity such policies have become outdated. They have been replaced instead with policies of dependence. Biopower takes it control by regulating public health, heredity and risks. Through these things it makes the population dependent upon the sovereign. HARMS: A. Biopower justifies the use of war. This however is much different than the war of old that we are all so familiar with. Biopower, the power of the energy known as people, is not about defending the sovereign. It is instead justified through the idea of maintaining the life of everyone. Entire populations are put into battle under the guise of life necessity. This justifies the destruction of masses for the maintaining of the population as a whole. The modern state now runs through the principles of battle. The power of life of the population now coexists with the power to destroy entire populations. B. Biopower created and maintained the holocaust. The holocaust was based on the premise of a superior race of superior blood. A blood which could interbreed with lower forms of blood if given the chance and create lower forms of human beings. In order to sustain the population the bad blood needed to be weeded out and destroyed. This led to the destruction of entire populations that were deemed as a threat to the survival of the population. The entire holocaust was based on the premise of maintaining the population thus its survival. Through the use of bio politics the sovereign mobilized an entire race to destroy 6 million others. C. Biopower literally justifies anything. For your security, for your health, this is for your protection. Those are the beginnings of each message of biopower. Look to modern examples, we entered Iraq because they might have nuclear weapons which would be a threat to our very existence as a whole. How many innocent lives have we killed there? In fact look to most every war which we have entered. The same premise, the same idea. Look to our everyday lives. We must wear a seatbelt in a car because if we don't then the population would be at risk of death. We must have insurance because had we not many people would die. Are those not our free choices to do or to have? Yet the sovereign has taken the liberty of that power under the guise of maintaining the population. With this type of logic anything can and will be justified. PLAN: 1. The United states federal government will implement a policy offering incentives for schools to adopt the "World History Policy". This policy will shift the focus of history classes K-12 from learning about interactions between sovereigns to learning about interactions between the individual and the power or energy of the individual. Furthermore this new history will stress the fact that everyone is part of the whole, known as the world. The "World History Policy" will also actively stress the idea that every person is different in their own way and no group of people can be correctly classified by one broad term or stereotypical group. Finally the policy will stress the fact that everyone human is of this earth before anything else. The incentives will amount to exactly double what the program itself will cost to run. This will allow for funding for other parts of the school on top of funding for the policy itself. 2. The Affirmative team claims the rights to fiat, clarification and of course legislative intent. Wouldn't be a policy round without those. 3. All funding will be through normal means. SOLVENCY: A. This plan will solve for all 3 of the harms. By rejecting the idea that people can truly be classified into any broad encompassing idea we reject the very energy that makes biopower work. If people can no longer be classified into groups then mass killings can no longer be justified by saving the whole. Furthermore if people simply identify themselves as part of this earth then there is no way to justify killings in order to save the people of the earth. To do so would be to justify killing people of the earth. This plan takes away all of the political energy known as biopower and replaces it instead with the energy of the single individual and the energy of the whole. These prevent the future detestation of society. I know stand open for my opponents rebuttal.