From: Phil Osborn (philosborn2001@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Dec 24 2002 - 17:54:07 MST
I got into a long discussion at a Saturday night
holiday party this last weekend, in which the
rationale for the upcoming (?) Iraq war was debated
(yawn) for the nth time (n to infinity).
However, I introduced a hypothesis which I have
thought about for some time, but never expressed:
To wit: suppose Bush & Co. understands what Conrad
Schneiker was saying in 1978 about the exponential
growth of the power of destruction outpacing the
capacity of defense, and Conrad's follow-up corollary
that the only surviveable high-tech society is one of
universal surveillance.
If so, then Iraq is just the beginning. A convenient
place to start the American Imperium, to impose
surveillance on the entire world. How else could it
be done? And if the alternative - for the moment - is
universal annihilation, then what could the objection
be?
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