The forces at work were clear as they often are when a state apparatus sets out alone to censor. You wait for openings to come and then you take advantage of them. Or, helplessly, you watch things become more rigid and cruel. But you know the enemy, and the enemy is not solid or stable. Governments are by their nature uneasy and temporary. While forbidding, banning, repressing belong often to their mission as much as collecting taxes or building highways or having their photographs taken, their policies dart and move. And thus they are often open to pressure...just as they are often ready to pretend that they are not. Political power is a form of weakness; the word, in all its slippery ambiguity, is a form of strength.
Posted on: Wed, 07 May 2014 17:51:15 +0000
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