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Weekly transmissions from Adbusters, the journal of the mental environment

Hey Jammer,

Democracy is the defining virtue of Western political systems. We worry that if it fails we’ve got nothing.

That’s why what’s happening now is so troubling. Democracy seems to be on the verge of failing.

They all, at one point, have been his clients.

But the real glue in the gears of democracy isn’t what you think.

It’s secrecy.

Only when We the People know what’s going on can a political system truly be called a democracy. Because the right to freely express yourself depends first on the ability to make an informed judgment. That’s what “power to the people” means.

It should be embarrassing to keep secrets. We need to keep hollering this from the rooftops until keeping secrets becomes a taboo.

Let’s make that the rallying cry of a new movement . . .

. . . a movement to #MakeSecrecyTaboo.

Read full story from Adbusters’ forthcoming book,
The Third Force – Field Guide To a New World Order

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