Wikileaks, Resistance, Genuine Heroes, and Breaking the Goddamned Rules: Part II - Arthur Silber

I have sometimes described America today as an "obedience culture." The phrase refers to the fact that, beneath the specifics of the largely pointless debates on any topic you care to name, those who purport to speak on behalf of the values of "civilization" and "order" -- that is, those who contend they and only they are the true defenders of Western civilization generally -- insist on the primacy of one virtue above all others: obedience to authority.
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  1. #1    Part I can be found here: http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1116061
    written by Fiore since 34 days 6 hours 17 minutesFiore
  2. #2    Great work from Silber, as usual. Here's the original source, his site:
    http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2010/07/wikileaks-resistance-genuine-heroes-and_29.html
    written by nasrudin since 34 days 55 minutesnasrudin
  3. #3    What does it matter where it is found?
    written by Fiore since 33 days 22 hours 26 minutesFiore
  4. #4    @#3 -

    (1) It's the rule: "Link to the original source".

    (2) Some writers depend on ad revenues, or use page view counts when applying for grants and jobs, or wish to be able to post updates and corrections, or merely want the satisfaction of knowing that their work is being read.
    written by Mike5000 since 33 days 16 hours 37 minutesMike5000
  5. #5    I stopped considering obedience a virtue the day I walked through Dachau.
    written by conchobhar since 33 days 7 hours 23 minutesconchobhar
  6. #6    #4, there was no indication that uruknet was NOT the original source. Maybe Silber sent it there himself. Some authors, like Michael Collins, release their material to several different sites at once. Maybe Silber is the same.
    written by Fiore since 33 days 4 hours 54 minutesFiore
  7. #7    #6 -- At the bottom of the articles uruknet posts, including this one, you'll find "Link: http..." in VERY small print.
    written by nasrudin since 32 days 13 hours 36 minutesnasrudin
  8. #8    Only anal retentives notice VERY small print. I'm not anal retentive.
    written by Fiore since 32 days 6 hours 45 minutesFiore
  9. #9    I try to read as if I were tracking: attentive to detail.

    And I haven't been anal retentive since I stopped taking large doses of narcotics decades ago. =]
    written by nasrudin since 32 days 2 hours 9 minutesnasrudin
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