Mainstream WeeklyIntroduction
If aadhaar based digital injustice, slavery and totalitarianism is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
The question:Are we all going to continue to give our consent to voluntary servitude to the beneficial owners of the automatic identification and biometric profiling machines, or will we confront the naturalisation of the politics of obedience? raises the oldest political questions about knowledge, authority, power and human dignity. In his book The Politics Of Obedience: The Discourse Of Voluntary Servitude (1552-53), Etienne de La Boetie, the French jurist and a close friend of of Montaigne, the noted French philosopher and a leading writer of the French Renaissance wondered