Technocratic cynicism is not scandalous, per se, but by the way it breaks a fundamental rule of our social and political game: corruption for some and protesting Evil for others. If the corrupt have no respect for this protocol, and show their hand without sparing us their hypocrisy, then the ritual mechanism of denunciation goes haywire. The privilege of telling the truth eludes our grasp—in the face of capital unveiled by the capitalists, even.
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Jean Baudrillard - The Agony of Power
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This pandemic is really proving that government has the means to solve all problems they just choose not to
