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Polyarchy : essays on statism

(2003)

Novara - Oxford - Portoroz - Bern


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Terrorism / Antiterrorism




The ruler and the ruled
The resolute ruler: the need for a villain
The reluctant ruled: the alien as villain
The function of the villain
The fight against the villain
Villains: the old targets
Villains: the new targets
Intolerance (terrifying intolerance)
Violence (terrifying violence)
The function of terrorism
The state agenda
The state methods
From terrorized to terrorizers
The war to promote war
The peace to promote peace
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The ruler and the ruled (^)

The human being is a cooperative/competitive animal.
Cooperation can over-extend itself and, in a sense, degenerate into passive compliance (submission) while competition can be over-stretched and subverted to the point of becoming aggressive coercion (dominion).
The healthy and fully functioning human being is the one who is willing and capable to display both the aspects of cooperation and competition in his/her daily activities without being drawn by either of its degenerate states.
Unfortunately, in the course of history some people have fallen prey to the exclusive attraction of one or the other of these two positions, sometimes in their extreme form.
This has given rise to the roles of rulers and ruled that have crystallized into social positions of...