From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Fri Aug 30 2002 - 05:11:08 MDT
If At First You Don't Secede
by Butler Shaffer
One of the secrets the institutional establishment would like to keep
from the rest of us is the existence of worldwide pressures to
decentralize political power. While political systems seek to extend
their authority through increased police and military powers (as in
America) and through the creation of such supra-national political
structures as the European Union or the World Trade Organization, these
practices are really desperate efforts to forestall the further decline
of political authority throughout the world.
A principal manifestation of such decentralizing tendencies has been the
growth of political secession movements. From the collapse of the Soviet
Union to "separatist" efforts being made in Tibet, Mongolia, Spain,
Italy, Indonesia, Yugoslavia, India, France, Northern Ireland, Quebec, a
number of the former Soviet Republics, and elsewhere, informal
processes - in varying degrees of energy - are at work to reduce the
size and power of stultifying, life-destroying political structures.
Even at the heart of the Middle Eastern conflict lies a demand, on the
part of the Palestinians, for the right to secede from Israel.
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