- Arrested for poppy burning? Beware the tyranny of decency
- It should go without saying that throughout history, there has rarely been an opinion of value that didn’t cause outrage and offence to many. The truth it is not really the message, not the image, not the words that are being punished in any of these cases, but rather a refusal to conform to a tabloid-esque, lowest common denominator of decency. The new tyranny has less in common with Stalin or Mussolini than with the grassroots fundamentalism, puritanism and vigilantism of the Taliban, transposed to a hi-tech, secular, networked, postmodern society.
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– November 12, 2012
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