Critt Jarvis, posting on Dr. Barnett’s blog, develops the discussion further bringing in the ideas two thinkers I now feel I need to learn more about – John Robb and Dan Gillmor. Critt is also recommending von Hayek’s classic The Road to Serfdom. I concur – though if readers have a bent toward more technical economic explanations I would recommend Hayek’s underappreciated mentor Ludwig von Mises, particularly his Socialism and Human Action.
( Note this is NOT a recommendation or endorsement of some of the kooky, Rothbardian, anarcho-capitalist followers on the internet who misrepresent themselves as serious students of von Mises. These folks, who once published the most bizarre review of PNM on record, are IMHO, a gang of crypto-Trotskyite crackpots. I’m not sure if even Murray Rothbard- who was way out there himself- would have endorsed all of their internet antics.)
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Dan tdaxp:
May 21st, 2005 at 5:20 am
With the fall of the Iron Curtain, the repeal of the” Fairness Doctrine” and the rise of alternative media, the power of the gatekeepers, if not broken, has been badly battered. From an elite perspective, the barbarians are past the gates, in the city and setting up shop. This diversification of media voices has brought a much higher degree of potential transparency to government and media operations.
Or, from the elite’s perspective, the barbarians have
#penetrated the gates
#isolated the remaining guards from each other and the elites
#subdued the badly broken Elite regime system
#reoriented the conquered town around barbarian lines, and are
#reharmonizing the townsfolk to believe that barbarian rule is natural.
Sorry, couldn’t resist. That analogy’s a PISRR. 😉
Great point on misdirection as a form of victory. I missed it. Your original thoughts always astound me.
vonny:
May 21st, 2005 at 12:36 pm
Another tactic not mentioned is to hire broadcasters/reporters, as the administration has done on several occasions to help push its agenda. In my humble opinion, this is a path we do not want to take.
mark:
May 21st, 2005 at 2:24 pm
Hey Dan
Thank you very much ! And thanks for bringing in more 4GW – the post above might have been longer in that vein but I was getting reeeeeaaaally tired last night ;o)
Almost finished with the Hammes book – I’m at the section where he is doing threat assessment.
Hey Dr. Von !
I would say the administration payola is a continuation of the existing intelligence recruitment model continuum of politician-press relationships.
It is a new unethical wrinkle ( or at least getting caught is) as far I know for the USG, though the Soviets bought off Western journalists back in the day. Our allies tender a lot of indirect bribes toward the media and influential former officials in the form of speaker’s fees, honorariums, posts at think tanks, friendship societies etc. etc.
The Clintonites were in-between the old source-reporter relationship and direct payoffs – they hired journalists/pundits openly to work their old colleagues behind the scenes -ala Blumenthal and cultivated social relationships like we haven’t seen since the days of the Kennedy – Ben Bradlee friendship.
Dan tdaxp:
May 21st, 2005 at 11:46 pm
Von,
The media tactic is a re-investment of victory. A Third Stage political victory (seizing the government) is invested in a Second Stage battle (network contestment).
Bush has done the same thing before, to PBS.
Stuart Berman:
May 22nd, 2005 at 1:35 am
Mark,
In your update were you referring to http://blog.mises.org/blog/
I have been trying to make heads or tails of them – although the blog makes interesting reading…
mark:
May 22nd, 2005 at 3:57 am
Hey Stu,
I actually had the Lewrockwell crew more in mind when I wrote that BUT Let’s just say that von Mises found Ayn Rand’s political commentary too abrasive, dogmatic and hard edged at times – and he was her friend.
Austrian economics is perfectly respectable, I admire von Mises quite a bit but it would be interesting to see what he’d have to say about some of the things his followers are saying.
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