Right you are. The police - we pay them and they are supposed to protect citizens from violent acts of administration - is no longer our police. If it ever really was. Highly structured in hirarchy, it is now a paramilitary riot force of the state.
In his 1968 essay, The Nature of Mass Demonstrations, John Berger wrote that while protests might in theory be an appeal to the democratic conscience of the State, we should not presuppose such a conscience exists. This is very unlikely, he said.
The true function of demonstrations, Berger said, is not to convince the existing State authority, “[t]he truth is that mass demonstrations are rehearsals for revolution: not strategic or even tactical ones, but rehearsals of revolutionary awareness.”
It is also the nature of demonstrations to provoke violence upon itself. While their threat is symbolic, they force the state to either display weakness (and do nothing) or display authoritarianism. In this way, Berger wrote, “the historical role of demonstrations is to show the injustice, cruelty, irrationality of the existing State authority. Demonstrations are protests of innocence.”
Right you are. The police - we pay them and they are supposed to protect citizens from violent acts of administration - is no longer our police. If it ever really was. Highly structured in hirarchy, it is now a paramilitary riot force of the state.
In his 1968 essay, The Nature of Mass Demonstrations, John Berger wrote that while protests might in theory be an appeal to the democratic conscience of the State, we should not presuppose such a conscience exists. This is very unlikely, he said.
The true function of demonstrations, Berger said, is not to convince the existing State authority, “[t]he truth is that mass demonstrations are rehearsals for revolution: not strategic or even tactical ones, but rehearsals of revolutionary awareness.”
It is also the nature of demonstrations to provoke violence upon itself. While their threat is symbolic, they force the state to either display weakness (and do nothing) or display authoritarianism. In this way, Berger wrote, “the historical role of demonstrations is to show the injustice, cruelty, irrationality of the existing State authority. Demonstrations are protests of innocence.”
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Fuck you!
Please describe, in detail, what happened to the cop. 🙂
He got some karma. I don't care what happens to him