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“Security” is an ambiguous term, which in public policy debate is used by those in power in self-serving ways. Protection from external enemies - the conventional use of security - demands secrecy and trust. Security is a trump card used to manufacture acquiescence and conformity, and to stifle dissent. It has been thus for the past thousand years as well as the past twelve and a half years.
My definition of security would include autonomy, privacy, free speech, food, shelter, healthcare and freedom from undue fear, as well as being defended against external physical harm. Thus, I conclude that the best way to achieve these objectives is by promoting and enforcing basic rule of law principles which are the bedrock of free and prosperous societies enabling optimal human liberty, security and development.
As I see it, the main challenges to security today are: a lack of fair competition in key sectors of society; ecological degradation abetted by a corrupt system of myopic incentives; the manner in which technology is being used in Orwellian ways; and the way in which the 9/11 attack has been used to create an endless war paradigm which still today hangs over us to peddle fear and paralyze skepticism, thus making us much less secure.
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