Birth registration, census categories, and identification systems helped make populations legible to the modern state. 📝🏛️
Counting was never neutral. It shaped taxation, welfare, policing, citizenship, public health, inclusion, and exclusion.
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https://brewminate.com/birth-identification-census-classification-state-power/
A quotation from Bertrand Russell
There are some among philosophers and statesmen who think that the State can have an excellence of its own, and not merely as a means to the welfare of the citizens. I cannot see any reason to agree with this view. “The State” is an abstraction; it does not feel pleasure or pain, it has no hopes or fears, and what we think of as its purposes are really the purposes of individuals who direct it. When we think concretely, not abstractly, we find, in place of “the State,” certain people who have more power than falls to the share of most men. And so glorification of “the State” turns out to be, in fact, glorification of a governing minority. No democrat can tolerate such a fundamentally unjust theory.Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-30), “Individual and Social Ethics,” Reith Lecture, No. 6, BBC Radio
More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/834…
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There are some among philosophers and statesmen who think that the State can have an excellence of its own, and not merely as a means to the welfare of the citizens. I cannot see any reason to agree with this view. "The State" is an abstraction; it does not feel…
Good points in here.
Yes, hypocrisy and arbitrariness are running amuck at the moment but the real danger is allowing mistrust in free enterprise (with appropriate regulations) to support a situation where there it becomes ok for using heavy-handed state power for arbitrary coercion. That is far more dangerous than any individual company's situation. https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/anthropic-and-the-right-to-say-no #Anthropic #StatePower #FreeSociety #FreeEnterprise #Coercion #Pentagon #AI #Principles #Policy #Hypocrisy #Business
Via #RobertReich - Feb 25, 2026
It’s time to make #CitizensUnited #history. #Montana — and now #California — can lead the way. Here's how.
#CorporatePower #Corporatism #StatePower #PAC #SuperPAC #Democracy #USpolitics #SCOTUS
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-california-can-neuter-citizens
The UDHR doesn't grant rights — it declares them. Then Article 29 quietly hands the state a master key to revoke any of them for "general welfare".
A right the state can limit is a license. A freedom requiring permission is a privilege with better branding.
đź”— https://kairos-prometheon.com/en/blog/2026-02-20-human-rights/
#HumanRights #UDHR #Statepower #Liberty #Sovereignty #Philosophy
SKROETFEST, Zwolle: Zeke, Skroetbalg, State Power, Antillectual, March, more
Hedon, Saturday, April 11 at 04:00 PM GMT+2
Skroetfest - zaterdag 11 april 2026 – Hedon Zwolle. Zet die datum rood in je agenda, want Zwolle wordt die dag weer geannexeerd tot Drents grondgebied tijdens Skroetbalg's vierde editie van SKROETFEST! Vorig jaar was het káts uitverkocht dus zie hier de eerste redenen om snel je kaarten veilig te stellen: https://www.hedon-zwolle.nl/voorstelling/32677/skroetfest-2026
The state claims moral authority while systematically violating every principle it demands you uphold. Ten commandments. Ten inversions. One question: Will you keep bowing?
đź”— https://kairos-prometheon.com/en/blog/2026-02-11-inverted-covenant/
In moments of war, language becomes a battlefield of its own. Few accusations carry as much moral weight — or are deployed as quickly — as the charge of antisemitism. Increasingly, it is invoked not to describe hatred of Jews, but to shut down criticism of the Israeli government. This conflation is not only intellectually flawed; it is dangerous.Antisemitism is real. It is ancient, lethal, and resurgent. It refers to hostility, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews as Jews. Criticising the a
There is notable internal dissent within Israeli civil society, including among respected rights organizations, scholars, and activists who have publicly challenged their government’s policies in Gaza and in some cases have directly accused the state of actions that meet the legal definition of genocide. 🇮🇱🧠⚖️Here’s a balanced and clear breakdown of what’s happening within Israel itself regarding these debates:🧩 1. Israeli Rights Groups Using the Term “Genocide”🔹 B’Tselem – One of Israel’s
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