Center for a Stateless Society
by Thomas L. Knapp
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Commentary "Two conditions must obtain for the state to maintain its supremacy over the populace. One is that the political class must know what the populace is up to. The other is that the populace must NOT know what the political class is up to. While the state has enjoyed considerable success in its attempts to maintain the first condition, maintaining the second has become for all practical purposes impossible, short of completely crashing civilization as we know it." (02/08/13)
http://c4ss.org/content/17078
The new political asymmetry: Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
by Thomas L. Knapp
Posted in Commentary
"Two conditions must obtain for the state to maintain its supremacy over the populace. One is that the political class must know what the populace is up to. The other is that the populace must NOT know what the political class is up to. While the state has enjoyed considerable success in its attempts to maintain the first condition, maintaining the second has become for all practical purposes impossible, short of completely crashing civilization as we know it." (02/08/13)
http://c4ss.org/content/17078