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Comments on: Ambient government http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/05/ambient-government/ Trying to make a point Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:21:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: Charlie Whitaker http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/05/ambient-government/#comment-11611 Thu, 11 May 2006 21:21:16 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/05/11/ambient-government/#comment-11611 Ambient government is a good coinage. There seems to be a deal, spoken about only in code, which the government likes to put to ‘business’, which goes something like this: business looks after the populace during the day (by giving them things to do, or offering them things to buy) while government takes care of the need of business to have their workers / shoppers taken care of ‘out of hours’. Ideally it would be a 24/7 arrangement, in which the citizen is never idle / uncared for. ‘This business is not a democracy’ can shade almost imperceptibly into ‘ this democracy is not a democracy’. ‘There’s no I in team’. Etc.

All a delusion of self-styled elites, of course. It’s just unfortunate that some of the patronising buggers happen to actually have some temporary influence.

]]> By: Rochenko http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/05/ambient-government/#comment-11574 Thu, 11 May 2006 16:48:46 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/05/11/ambient-government/#comment-11574 That last bit sounds very enlightened. The more you stress your commitment, the less we’ll bother trying to make sure you stick to it. Very Blairoid.

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