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Titolo: [sociologia] la democrazia del 21° secolo

Sono stata molto indecisa se postare o no, comunque lo faccio...
riporto alcuni scritti di un collega d'Oltreoceano, argomenti:
globalizzazione, colonizzazione culturale, strategie di controllo. Sono
solo alcuni estratti di un trattato fiume, mi sembrano interessanti
spunti di riflessione.... i contenuti sembrano un po' allarmistici ma
sono comunque la testimonianza di un "clima d'opinione".
Questo č il primo, se non ve ne frega niente fermatemi e smetto, ok?
S.
P.S. inserisco il tag cosě si riconoscono.
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Democracy for the Twenty-First Century.
Revolutionising the Nineteenth Century concept.
(Excerpt from 'The Breakdown of the Military Intelligence Tyrannies')
www.contrapublishing.com
In Phase II of the coming global revolution, massive  and reiterated
assaults on central state institutions like parliaments, ministries,
security agencies and other military institutions can be expected. These
central decision-making bodies will rightfully be perceived by the
populations as directly responsible for the establishment and growth of
the
military intelligence tyrannies. Concurrently with the violent
demonstrations, a seething criticism of parliamentarism acting
disgracefully
as a cloak for four decades of continuous encroachments on basic human
rights can be foreseen. Further, specific demands for the transformation
of
democracies as well as a revolutionising reconfiguration of the concept
of
national sovereignty will come into being.
Obviously, the representative democracy which developed in the latter
half
of the Nineteenth Century in several European countries after the
revolutions in 1848-49 is still at the dawn of the Twenty-First Century a
hierarchical system irrespective of the fact that this novelty
encompassed a
spectrum of different political attitudes in the populations. The
continued
deep-rooted hierarchical nature of the system was played down
concurrently
with the celebration of a new tolerance of a larger segment of political
variation. In concert with the remains of Nineteenth Century Democracy
the
intouchable sanctity of national sovereignty 1) still favours the
persistence of furtive but comprehensive assaults on basic human rights
well-known from the preceding centuries.
In Phase II and III of the global revolution, a tremendous need for new
non-hierarchical, non-parliamentarian and non-governmental structures and
institutions will arise. These revolutionary new creations, among others
those proposed by the author in the next chapter, will certainly be
democratic and, by our united efforts, fine-tuned to the reality of the
post-apocalyptic information society.
Stepping stones towards the post-apocalyptic reality test
In the 1990s, an academic debate (2-4) arose at leading American
universities about the Western political reality paving the way for a
higher
sense of the actual in academia's reality test initially expressing
recognition, as well as resentment of conspiracy theories as actually
existing alternative explanatory models of the American reality.
The American debate suffers with a few remarkable exceptions (5-6) from
an
elementary deficiency, the lack of a sufficiently clear distinction
between:
* paranoid conspiracy theories, and
* non-paranoid conspiracy theories
In other words: when these scholars do not take the trouble of availing
themselves with the well-substantiated evidence of conspiratorial reality
(see pp. 5-6), e.g. the huge mind control conspiracy planned and executed
by
successive American governments and military agencies against their own
population, then they cannot decide either what is paranoid (from the
Greek
para: beside and nous: mind or reason) and what not.
Unfortunately, a degree in literature, sociology or political science
will
not replace the ability to seek and discern truth in humble places.
Another deficiency in this debate is that no talented mind control
victims
to the best of my knowledge have been appointed to chairs at leading
American institutes of political science or sociology. This means that
quite
elementary and comprehensive insider knowledge of the massive
conspiratorial
American reality is not honoured but at best considered an alternative or
second-rate reality test.
But exactly this reality test is a necessary precondition for
transforming
the American society from the pre-apocalyptic military intelligence
tyranny
into a Twenty-First Century democracy.
National sovereignty: a concept as valid as ever ?
A short definition of the sovereignty of a state is its ability to make
and
enforce its own policies and laws in its own territory and over the
people
living within its borders. 7)
The term sovereignty is used in four different ways:
* International legal sovereignty are the practices associated with
mutual
recognition of states. The concept of equality of the states was
introduced
by the Frenchman Vattel in 1758. The concept of the state internationally
is
considered analogous to the individual at the national level.
* Westphalian sovereignty refers to political organisation based on
exclusion of external actors within a state's territory. A modification
of
Westphalian sovereignty, the national sovereign system formed by national
identities supervened in the Nineteenth Century.
* Domestic sovereignty is the ability of public authorities to organise
and
exercise effective control within the state borders.
* Interdependence sovereignty is the ability of public authorities to
regulate the flow of information, ideas, goods, people, pollutants, or
capital across the borders of the state. Interdependence sovereignty is
not
accepted as an instance of sovereignty by all scholars, as it is
considered
by some writers to involve mere power and not constitutional authority.
It has been underway for a long time, the coming showdown between the
notion
of national sovereignty, the fact that a state can do as it pleases
within
its own jurisdiction and the international law of human rights. 8)
The system of independent, sovereign states that was born after the peace
of
Westphalia putting an end to the Thirty Years' War in 1648 and to the
chief
source of contention in European politics since the Reformation,
religious
conflict, represented for its time a hard-won, deeply necessary and
quintessential construction. 9) It is not a system that can be abolished
in
a twinkling, nor can it, without further ado, be combined with other
potentially contradictory systems like the universal human rights.
Therefore, we need not rest in doubt as to  how one of the finest experts
on
the system, Daniel Philpott, answers the question that he himself poses:
"Is
Westphalian sovereignty a beleaguered but enduring norm or an
irremediably
flawed construct?" Philpott believes national sovereignty is a concept
that
is as valid as ever and should be maintained in its traditional form with
its Westphalian roots.  The emergence in the second half of the Twentieth
Century of a complex but relatively integrated world system which still,
in
part, operates through the states system 10) is then according to  Daniel
Philpott an expression of the basically uncompromised, flawless
construction
and operation of the system of
sovereign national states. Hence based on the Philpottian assessment of
the
current condition of national sovereignty, the assaults by the sovereign
Nazi Germany and Cambodia under Pol Pot on the basic human rights of its
own
citizens are merely so many instances of the fact that we live in a world
of
violations. Those acts do not change the fact that the system of
sovereign
states is still working and according to Philpott still fundamentally
sound.
Now, when the system of national sovereignty with the advance of old age
allow systematic perpetrations against basic human rights not just in one
or
two, but simultaneously in scores of nations while pulling the
electromagnetic enslavement of ever larger sections of global society
together with parliamentarism, then we cannot unfortunately accept the
doctor's certificate any longer. And there is no getting round the basic
similarity between national sovereignty and parliamentarism involving in
both systems a concentration of power at the pinnacle of a hierarchical
political structure. Therefore, the revolutionary processes in the coming
global revolution will be aimed at representative democracy and the
unmasked
irremediably flawed system of national sovereignty to the same degree.
It is interesting, not to say alarming, that both systems by leading
political scientists before the imminent global revolution are considered
eschewing revolutionary transformation.
The changes in international legal sovereignty will probably be rather
inconspicuous like the changes in interindividual behaviour after
Christianity was adopted. The other elements of national sovereignty,
interdependence, domestic and even Westphalian sovereignty will hardly be
dissolved but will to some extent be made available to form new
connections
with basic human rights in a new global system.
The core of national sovereignty is non-intervention. Based on the 'Just
War' concept, Adam Winkler has developed a 'Just Sanctions' concept, 11)
which I consider it natural to take one step further in Phase II of the
coming revolution leading to a 'Just Intervention' concept. What I have
in
mind are more precisely information interventions in nations and
situations
on the basis of global consent.
The Srebrenica surveillance operation described on p. 88 was not yet an
information intervention, but it included the military satellite
reconnaissance I imagine made available to the global civilian community
for
this purpose. By information intervention I understand reporting deeply
revolting realities on global TV in case of an aggravated situation
before
an imminent series of events which can be considered unquestionable
perpetrations against basic human rights like a threatening genocide,
mass
rape, etc.  It may be considered to show instances of torture as they
happen
as well as discussions between prospective war criminals deciding on
these
courses of action. The idea is to create a huge international pressure to
stop the atrocities preferably before they have a chance to occur and
should
be conceived in connection with the global security system discussed on
pp.
139-140.
Twenty-First Century democracy
* will concur with a revolution of state structure and sovereignty
* will to a large extent be non-representative
* will be global
* will need and erect new kinds of institutions and special buildings to
solve information and security tasks vital to the proper function of
democracy
References:
1. Philpott, Daniel: Usurping the Sovereignty of Sovereignty ? World
Politics, Vol. 53, No. 2, 2001.
2. Pipes, Daniel: Conspiracy: how the paranoid style flourishes and where
it
comes from. New York: The Free Press, 1997.
3. Dean, Jodi: Theorizing Conspiracy Theory. Theory and Event, Vol. 4,
No.
3, 2000.
4. Goshorn, Keith: Strategies of Deterrence and Frames of Containment: On
Critical Paranoia and Anti-Conspiracy Discourse. Theory and Event, Vol.
4,
No. 3, 2000.
5. Parenti, Michael: Against Empire. San Francisco: City Lights Books,
1995.
pp. 155-157.
6. Bale, Jeffrey M.: 'Conspiracy Theories' and Clandestine Politics.
Lobster, issue 29.
7. Cohen, Robin & Kennedy, Paul: Global Sociology. London: Macmillan,
2000.
8. Krasner, Stephen D.: Sovereignty - Organized Hypocrisy. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1999.
9. Philpott, Daniel: The Religious Roots of Modern International
Relations.
World Politics, Vol. 52, No. 2, 2000.
10. Mills, Kurt: Human Rights in the Emerging Global Order. A New
Sovereignty ? London: Macmillan, 1998. pp. 24-25.
11. Winkler, Adam: Just Sanctions. Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 21, No.
1,
1999.

 P.S. inserisco il tag così si riconoscono.
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 Revolutionising the Nineteenth Century concept.
... è che io ho qualche difficoltà con il francese... ;-))
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 piedi nudi fino in India e ritorno.
Ho voglia di piangere....si, penso proprio che piangerò : (
S.


Beh, lascialo e mettiti con un italiano o che so....un americano.

 Beh, lascialo e mettiti con un italiano o che so....un americano.
M. xò questa me la segno, bella. :-)
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