Re: PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/The-AP-kerfuffle-tp7583146p7583481.html


"But most people are driven by a dynamic complex of competing agendas,
including the kinds of conflict Steve asks about in his honor/oath
question.  Snowden, like
O'Keefe, _seems_ to me to be absent any interesting complex of agendas."

A contrary view is that only young people have a clear enough view of
things to act this way.  Old timers like me rationalize their fears,
inhibitions, constraints, and coping strategies as a proxy for wisdom.
Worse, we may point to the collective wisdom as better than an informed
individual's analysis.  Same thing as authoritarianism.  

Marcus

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