A short essay where I argue that we should commandeer the toolkit of surveillance advertising to create an invasive, nonconsensual public health tracking system to help us control this pandemic https://idlewords.com/2020/03/we_need_a_massive_surveillance_program.htm …
In an American context? A good example are the post-Watergate reforms, including the Church Committee. Devolution in the UK and EU are more recent examples internationally. My own outlook, of course, is colored by the events of 1989, maybe the most spectacular modern example
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There was massive excess mortality due to economic disaster when the Soviet Union collapsed. That may not fit your notions of political violence, but it's hard to say it's not a kind of violence.
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That has nothing to do with this discussion even if you accept this very odd expansion of what 'violence' means
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