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Nick Hudson of PANDA is coming to London on Thursday May 26th to deliver ?The Quest for Open Science?, after which he will be interviewed by Jeffrey Peel from the New Era and take questions from the audience.
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Jump To Comment: 1I'd say we never really had proper democracy and it has been demopsefia (people vote) as the author says except it has been this way for quite a while. It just that some fraction of the population are finally beginning to see through the farce although there are still plenty around that seem to think voting makes a difference.
I think this sentence "The sleight-of-hand conversion of the citizen into consumer only works insofar as the consumer has the wherewithal to consume.. " is spot on. However the quote from the recent new citizen from the Philippines "I am very excited today because I have been here for so long working hard to get my citizenship’ probably reflects the relative difference between here and the Philippines which has Third World level poverty, slums and the whole lot and corruption would be at levels that we would find hard to believe. In countries like these for example almost nobody sees the police force as something there to keep the peace and protect but see them as a parasitic layer that constantly abuses their position and is simply a career in extracting bribes. By contrast Ireland would look a lot safer and more functional.
I'd argue though that over the next few decades we will slip very much in the downward direction unless of course as the author optimistically suggested: Is it possible that this enthusiasm for citizenship ignited by a newly globalised population will push the superficial concept of consumer (not to mention its manipulability) over the edge and bring about a return to a national ideology of rights and duties of citizenship? I sure hope so.