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ZBIGNIEW Kazimier Brzezinski ha sido, pese a la ininteligibilidad de su filiación polaca, uno de los más preclaros politólogos de la historia reciente. En “La visión estratégica”, hace poco más de ocho años, preconiza que en las próximas décadas va a resultar prácticamente imposible la existencia de un pensamiento propio. Las masas, asegura el que fuera consejero de Seguridad Nacional de Carter, van a recibir el suministro de entretenimiento como un sedante que propicie atonía y evasión. De paso, se ahuyenta cualquier atisbo de rebelión que proceda de la capacidad crítica que se supone al ser humano informado. Al final, como sostuvo el popular periodista
The writer is Dawn’s correspondent in Delhi.
ESPIONAGE and hostile surveillance are as old as human history. In the wild too, prey and predator keep an aggressive watch on each other, forever improving their strategy for survival. In the absence of technology, we even invented the myth of remote vigilance. Sanjay, a few thousand years before the advent of electronic espionage, could watch the contests on the battlefield from the palace of the blind king who he regularly briefed on the progress of the Mahabharata.
Simply put, Pegasus kind of snooping has been happening and even flourishing in societies democratic or otherwise. What sustains or expands the assault on our democratic rights today is the issue.
J.P. Devine: Pass the macaroni salad
Watching the darkness spread on TV while eating dinner, J.P. Devine ponders the calamities in store for Maine and the world.
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For years, we watched NBC 6:30 news before dinner. Those were the good old days, the George H.W. Bush days, the Barack Obama days.
We’d have nuts and cheese, a sip of wine, and then sit down to dinner at seven or eight, like those fashionable people in L.A. who would invite us outliers to dinner because I had just started writing for the Los Angeles Times. Long ago and far away.
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