Thursday, June 21, 2007

The right to revolution

Seymour Hersh consistently gives us history-changing, criminal-naming stories, amazingly well-sourced and revelatory. But his writing -- and subject material -- is so damn hard to follow.
Please, New Yorker editors, help the readers out with timelines. And perhaps pictures of the major characters with telling captions. The idea is to disseminate this information to as wide an audience as possible, right?

Speaking of dissemination: A reminder of the not-half-bad DOI:
"...whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it..."

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

absolute despotism was reached after the Industrial Revolution: the coalescence of Capital, the Military, and Government. It became even more powerful after WWII, and now has reached full-grown (?) proportions.