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Title: Philosopher Kings and the Information Revolution
Post by: Dr. Rizzle on September 29, 2007, 03:34:17 PM
http://www.itsallpolitics.com/forum/index.php?topic=210.0
Quote from: illhumanoddity

Politics is power.

A relatively new face on the oldest concept known to man.

Players will use whatever means necessary.

That is why there are no philosopher kings.




"philosopher kings"   :)


I haven't seen that expression since the terrible class where I had to read lots of Plato.   ;)


The New Age where only philosophers become kings, for better or worse, is perhaps already here.


http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/569nzbrd.asp


Quote from: Gen. Charles Dunlap
The following is the transcript of a secret address delivered by the Holy Leader to the Supreme War Council late in the year 2007:

...the technology-empowered media made "information equality," not "information dominance," the key to the "revolution in military affairs." When [they] ... tried their pathetic cyber-based psychological operations to mislead our people, the world press quickly exposed the...deceit.

...information warfare "is fundamentally not about satellites, wires, and computers. It is about influencing human beings and the decisions they make.

...we freed ourselves from...decadent...notions of legal and moral restraint. And why not? ...so-called "laws of wars" were conceived ... to keep our people oppressed.

Countries such as ours, organized as they are around exceptionally powerful ethnic, religious, or cultural forces ... are much more resistant to vacillations in public opinion than are the diverse, pluralistic [peoples]. Because our people truly believed in America's wickedness, it was not necessary to hide our ferocity.


...[they] had been spared the unedited, real-time "virtual" battlefield presence that the new communication nets allowed.  Of the many mistakes ... made in adapting to the "revolution in military affairs," several stand out: They failed to consider how enemies with values and philosophies utterly at odds with theirs might conduct war in the information age. Despite what many technology-infatuated strategists thought in 1995, cyber-science cannot eliminate the vicious cruelty inherent in human conflict. We taught them that no computer wages war with the exquisite finality of a simple bayonet thrust.

This ... is the ultimate meaning of the Revolution in Military Affairs...Let us praise The One Above!



The global, unfettered flow, and fair competition of, ideas.  Should we fear it?