Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy — When Power Exempts Itself
What happens when the state powerful enough to enforce the rules begins treating those same rules as constraints mainly for everyone else?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy by Noam Chomsky as our lens, this investigation examines his argument that some characteristics associated with failed states can also emerge within powerful democracies.
Chomsky focuses on three connected failures: inadequate protection of citizens from grave dangers, exemption from domestic and…
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