Taking a stand against the hyper-regulation of life
Spiked
by Josie Appleton
07/07/09
There is no doubt that, over the past few years, there has been a fundamental shift in the relationship between state and civil society in Britain. But this shift has a peculiar quality. It is not that the state is oppressing society, or remoulding society in line with a political ideology. There are no New Labour boot camps; no smashing of newspapers that criticise the government. … It is not so much that the state is remoulding civil society. Instead, the state is demanding that we live our everyday lives through it. We are invited for a walk with the state; we are invited to eat with the state. More and more of social life is now lived through the state as an intermediary. Our everyday actions are supervised — and authorised — by an official bureaucracy. The emblem of this peculiar situation is the licence...
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7125/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Josie+Appleton
by Josie Appleton
07/07/09
There is no doubt that, over the past few years, there has been a fundamental shift in the relationship between state and civil society in Britain. But this shift has a peculiar quality. It is not that the state is oppressing society, or remoulding society in line with a political ideology. There are no New Labour boot camps; no smashing of newspapers that criticise the government. … It is not so much that the state is remoulding civil society. Instead, the state is demanding that we live our everyday lives through it. We are invited for a walk with the state; we are invited to eat with the state. More and more of social life is now lived through the state as an intermediary. Our everyday actions are supervised — and authorised — by an official bureaucracy. The emblem of this peculiar situation is the licence...
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7125/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Josie+Appleton
rudkla - 9. Jul, 10:59
