-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/02/2017 01:21 PM, Claudia Steimann wrote:
I am just reading that book http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23809961-psychopathic-cultures-and- toxic-empires
Psychopathic cultures and toxic empires
By Will Black and it describes really good what turns states like Turkey or US into something evil - also describes the same effects within companies.
Does anybody here got other must reads on society or politics?
First, a "must read" about reading about society and politics. Intelligence analysts work to penetrate nested sets of deceptive and manipulative information to arrive at "estimates" of the underlying realities, so-called, that these source materials represent. You will not find The Truth because there isn't one. But a well supported, confident estimate provides the means to make effective decisions. There are no unbiased sources /or/ analysts, but we do have ways of improving the work product: http://cryptome.org/2013/01/aaron-swartz/Psychology-of-Intelligence-Anal ysis.pdf =or= http://tinyurl.com/psych-intel According to recent statistics from the OPM and Census Bureau, the Executive and Legislative branches of the U.S. Federal government employ about 10.5 million people, excluding the military services (which are part of the Executive branch). This massive workforce, and the array of contractors they spend trillions of dollars to support, plus private sector advisors and lobbyists, has its own hard wired agendas and institutional inertia. It is called the Deep State. The comparatively tiny handful of elected officials who are somewhat accountable to the public, are boxed in by and highly accountable to the Deep State. I do not believe it is possible to understand, much less act on political information without understanding the context in which real policy decisions are made and implemented. Neither do the public and private sector propagandists whose stock in trade is to keep the public busy and distracted while "their democratic government" goes about its business, so this subject is rarely mentioned outside academic circles. Why The Deep State Always Wins: The Zero-Sum Game of Perpetual War Bill Blunden, August 29, 2014 http://cryptome.org/2014/08/deep-state-wins.pdf The Power Elite, C. Wright Mills Oxford University Press, 1956 Excerpt: https://tinyurl.com/elitepower National Security and Double Government, Michael J. Glennon, Harvard National Security Journal, 2014 Full text: https://tinyurl.com/thedeepstate Anatomy of the Deep State by Mike Lofgren, February 21, 2014 http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/ Information is not "intelligence" unless one can act on it, and that in turn requires a strategic framework for deploying tools available to the consumers of intelligence. People interested in "doing" politics may find some "must read" items in this collection of texts about populist political strategies and tactics. Neither the soap box, ballot box or ammo box provides tools for making substantive changes in State policies and agendas - although each has its role to play. Real political change follows organized public resistance that makes it more costly to continue "business as usual" by force, than to make concessions to public demands. These texts provide models and technical information relevant to making abuse of State power by Corporate interests cost prohibitive: http://pilobilus.net/strategic_conflict_docs_intro.html :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJYk6J1AAoJEECU6c5Xzmuqk64H/jivC2Kjl+7ZXLTYh79zBs59 g98jZs0YRoY6hMyDGvaBQQW/W7NnvWPq8hpSa1LlrRXHtyDdwsTX8oMbZnA5s3xW 9BdnA7nXnFv2S34NyKDsHN6CaF0MROaIr7MgFwtCGC0KJ2H8rBJKhhxtSbIyNGEH vaZNklIhqdFZkbnIh8BDtFdZoOgRBqcKD7+WMDMGMxeXCDSyuivCSGA8rJp3uT2K vqefaIrm1H+6qi8+YNM+ovoyYaYBvkbrZoeVz7IikM1N5mamNdHdnP+5xqwJFS4B 6NTIbdynmDLCVVNb0KSipLSibkECNBYO0wSqF1bkKoeIyXjsyATyCDG6jvFi4VE= =fK2s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----