[governance] Bloomberg - The Overzealous Prosecution of Aaron Swartz

[Adam Peake]

I understood the term "US Exceptionalism" to mean something along the lines
that US culture was in some what superior.  Guru, your comment encouraged a
search, and finding a result on wikipedia "American exceptionalism is the
proposition that the United States is different from other countries in
that it has a specific world mission to spread liberty and democracy." And
this would fit with Riaz's use, given the context.

To the first, hard to think how US culture is superior (special and often
great, and often not so great). Second, idea that the US has some god given
mission to spread liberty and democracy does seem to live on in the US
State department and they seem blind of the hyprocacry of (etc etc) Bradley
Manning, SOPA, Guantanamo Bay... and (IG/IGF context) sale by US companies
of software/hardware that enables repressive regimes to block/track/monitor
etc (as discussed at the 1st IGF, when Google and Cisco were criticized.)

I don't recall support the notion of US Exceptionalism from anyone on this
list.

Adam




On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Guru गुरु <Guru at itforchange.net> wrote:

>  On 01/20/2013 01:16 AM, John Curran wrote:
>
> On Jan 19, 2013, at 6:18 AM, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   [The Panglossian world of US Exceptionalism.... of course these matters
> are discussed and debated, but dare to do anything about it and then those
> will be put in their place, or no?]
>
>
>    The Overzealous Prosecution of Aaron Swartz
>  By Stephen L. Carter <http://www.bloomberg.com/view/bios/stephen-carter/>  Jan
> 18, 2013 1:30 AM GMT+0200
>
>  ...
>
>
>  Riaz -
>
> A very good question; I personally don't subscribe to a view of US
> Exceptionalism
> (that's likely because I've travelled a bit and can more readily make
> comparisons),
>
>  John,
>
> Do you mean you do not think US is exceptional / it is wrong to believe
> that the US is exceptional
> or
> Do you mean that there is no belief prevalent about US exceptionalism
>
> Can you elaborate on this remark
>
> thanks,
> Guru
>
> <snip>
>
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