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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-27-06 03:25 AM
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Was listening to Randi the other day
she had this show with all these folks calling in and telling it like it is...

Then a horrendous thought went through my mind... MIssion ACCOMPLISHHED... the American people ARE HUNGRY and ready for a revolt... but the American people are ATOMIZED to the point that even with the internets we don't know what is going on two blocks down... let alone the small town nearby. Since we don't know this, we don't realize we are not the only ones suffering or who are pissed off and ready to so something.

Folks time we go back to the old methods of organization, for as much as the web is great... the press has managed to fully atomize the population.

It has a technical name, anomie

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Anomie, in contemporary English, means a condition or malaise in individuals, characterized by an absence or diminution of standards or values.

The word comes from Greek, namely the prefix a-: "without", and nomos: "law". The Greeks distinguished between "nomos" (νόμος) (law), and "arché" (Αρχή) (starting rule, axiom, principle). For example, a "monarch" is a single ruler but he or she might still be subject to, and not exempt from, the prevailing laws, i.e. nomos; in the original city state "democracy", the majority rule was an aspect of "arché" because it was a rule-based, customary system which might, or might not, make laws, i.e. "nomos". Thus, the original meaning of anomie defined anything or anyone against or outside the "law", or a condition where the current laws were not applied resulting in a state of illegitimacy or lawlessness. The contemporary English understanding of the word anomie can accept greater flexibility in the word "norm", and some have used the idea of normlessness to reflect a similar situation to the idea of anarchy. But, as used by Émile Durkheim and later theorists, anomie is a reaction against, or a retreat from, the regulatory social controls of society, and is a completely separate concept from a situation of anarchy which is an absence of effective rulers or leaders.
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