Re: Mind's Eye Re: freedom of speech

There's a lot of work on why free speech is not really part of our
politics - usually focusing on the indexing of the media by its
professionals so only small parts of possible debate can take place in
media space. Manuel Castells is a 'name' in the area and he did an
interesting piece on how the lies on the Iraq War were promulgated by
Bush-Blair. Google turns it up.
The BBC's economic reporting is dire - and yet in free speech terms
one can find much better analysis - so why is the BBC so bad? Fox is
even more facile. One of the eventual questions once one realises
people don't hear evidence, is why speaking out is so ineffective.
Again, we already have some answers, but they include most people
being kept in a form of perpetual childhood, which is rather elitist.
Free speech under the Soviets was termed Samizdat, but they also used
to say that our own false-consciousness was formed by detective
novels, advertising and so on. In the end we have to get to grips
with what we have right to impose on others - such as a media space of
genuine free speech or even the idea we can form truth that decent
people should accept.

On Mar 1, 7:03 pm, Allan H <allanh1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That is very interesting  I like the part ' Firstly *it set the will and
> the wishes of the people above the King* ' I think there is a problem but I
> was reading euro news and they are talking about Greece but not in asterity
>   and it was mentioned the approach is not correct.
>
> I was looking at Face book and there was comments along the line of
> bringing things into line where people are important..  maybe just maybe
> the politicians are learning to smell the roses..  even the banks are
> slowly learning the bankster ways don't wash.
>
> Freedom of speech is needed, In reading the earlier post on creativity...
>  Most people have little or no creativity and follow like lemmings in their
> migration..  they just follow the person in front of them with no memory of
> the past and no questions..  some stupid ones like where did all of Romeys
> money come from?  I have a feeling there is a lot of insider trading with
> his blessing..and a whole lot of non-investigation.
> Allan
>
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:37 PM, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > That'll be the England so full of free speech that people left in
> > droves over centuries I guess Allan!  The first edict on freedom in
> > English was, of course, drafted by Scots in the Declaration of
> > Arbroath.
>
> > On Feb 28, 8:11 am, Allan H <allanh1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I see England has lost it freedom of speech..
>
> > > the corps ar now in charge and will over run.
> > > Allan
>
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> |_D Allan
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