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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe center-right Economist is even telling us we're a little too into surveilling...
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21582525-war-terror-haunts-america-still-it-should-recover-some-its-most-cherishedWorth the read. In a lot of ways the wording resembles the way you approach a good but drunk friend who's still insisting on grabbing their keys from you. But it is a mature, even handed article and everyone reading it will find something they like and don't like. Honest appraisals are like that.
Best new term I've seen in a while: "securocrats"
While I think is supposed to mean bureaucrats in the security apparatus, it would seem to have its applications elsewhere...
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The center-right Economist is even telling us we're a little too into surveilling... (Original Post)
Pholus
Aug 2013
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Koios
(154 posts)1. I like the Economist ...
... since their Big Mac Index thingy is kinda nice for seeing if Rightie fear mongering about wage minimums doubling the price of McDonald's burgers can be checked out ... and funny thing is, when last we raised the FMW (41%) the price increase of the Big Mac slowed down!! 41% higher wages, and the burger got cheaper ...
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)2. 'securocrat' is as old as the Cold War
First use in print that the OED found in 1949:
U.S. (chiefly depreciative). A person, esp. an official or bureaucrat, who believes social, personal, or national security to be of paramount importance, typically to the exclusion of other concerns.
1949 Evening Independent (Massillon, Ohio) 6 July 10/4 The long-faced securocrats have imagined that without federal aid for teachers our schools will collapse.
1950 Dun's Rev. Feb. 67/1 (It) will take only one full generation of securocrats to produce a welfare state dictatorship in America.
1963 Lima (Ohio) News 17 Oct. 17/3 The securocrat is someone who is looking for total security and total security is but an illusion, Kraven said.
2005 Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 26 July 4 a/2 The securocrats assert that installing cameras everywhere is bound to make you safer.
1949 Evening Independent (Massillon, Ohio) 6 July 10/4 The long-faced securocrats have imagined that without federal aid for teachers our schools will collapse.
1950 Dun's Rev. Feb. 67/1 (It) will take only one full generation of securocrats to produce a welfare state dictatorship in America.
1963 Lima (Ohio) News 17 Oct. 17/3 The securocrat is someone who is looking for total security and total security is but an illusion, Kraven said.
2005 Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 26 July 4 a/2 The securocrats assert that installing cameras everywhere is bound to make you safer.
Pholus
(4,062 posts)3. huh. new to me.
Then again I am late to this particular party.