Here's a vision for the future that's so lovely we should all be willing to do whatever it takes to achieve it. If somebody else has a vision of a new and different world, then I should be obliged to follow that vision, right? I mean come on, who am I (or who are you) to get in the way of these advanced souls' mystical visioning? And, lest Americans think it doesn't matter what they do over in England, the new airport X-ray body scanners in the USA were tested in London on pub patrons a couple years ago. They actually started it out on drunks. Bobbies cordoned off a pub, took everyone hostage and told all the customers to choose between a strip search and X-rays. Concerned London police looked for weapons, drugs, and definitely not silicone implants.
The official "side" of the smokers debate:
‘I want to see a smoke-free future, a future where people lead longer and healthier lives because they don’t smoke.’ Health Secretary Andy Burnham
Simon Clark, director of the smokers' lobby group Forest, said halving the number of smokers by 2020 will require even more laws and 'will further erode our ability to choose how we wish to live our lives'. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1247488/Cigarettes-sold-plain-packaging-latest-bid-sweep-away-smoking-Britain.html2020 is still a primary target year in the globalist programs for establishing a healthier planet.
Sandcastle of Theory
A Critique of Amitai Etzioni’s Communitarianism
Colin S. Gray University of Reading, England
Amitai Etzioni’s communitarianism offers an attractive but impractical vision. The global threats that he cites as engines for a communitarian future are not convincing as the triggers for epochal benign change in human security arrangements. Communitarianism has four especially fatal flaws: it is too large an idea and as a consequence, it overreaches; it poses the wrong question, and therefore provides a wrong answer; it rests on the fallacy that history can register a grand benign transformation in security affairs; and it assumes, unreasonably, that struggles for power and influence among the greater powers will not occur in the future.
Key Words: communitarianism • community • realism • order • culture
American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 48, No. 12, 1607-1625 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0002764205278080
http://abs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/48/12/1607
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. -- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, ch. 3
This article may intrigue you.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/02/police_man_with.html
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