Then those lessons must be taught harder, kamerad. The future of German, nay, world democracy depends on it, because what is a state agency if it is not used for the greater good?
State agencies are weapons. There is no greater good, just a choice of targets. The state can do no good, in the same way a rifle can not heal you, nor make you breakfast. It can only kill and destroy in a way that is hopefully controllable so that it's actions are only done when absolutely necessary.
The state agency operating for the greater good is the very nature of the the Frankfurt School
I mostly agree with you, though I still believe that a better people would make a better state, and a better state would use state agencies as tools to improve this theoretical state rather than weapons. Ideals die hard, and I have not had the will to completely smother mine yet, though the concept is slowly becoming more palatable as time goes on due to the current state of our civilization.
There's no question that better people make a better state. The same is true of any gun. Only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun.
This is the point of the watchmen state. The tools of violence and coercion must be kept out of the hands of just "anyone", and the use of those tools must be extremely limited in scope to protect civilization, and the people making a better world.
The government can't make a moral world, because the government is amoral. Only people can make a moral world, and a good watchmen or vangaurd has a responsibility to step back and allow you to make a better world.
The Frankfurt School's lessons aren't working.
Then those lessons must be taught harder, kamerad. The future of German, nay, world democracy depends on it, because what is a state agency if it is not used for the greater good?
State agencies are weapons. There is no greater good, just a choice of targets. The state can do no good, in the same way a rifle can not heal you, nor make you breakfast. It can only kill and destroy in a way that is hopefully controllable so that it's actions are only done when absolutely necessary.
The state agency operating for the greater good is the very nature of the the Frankfurt School
I mostly agree with you, though I still believe that a better people would make a better state, and a better state would use state agencies as tools to improve this theoretical state rather than weapons. Ideals die hard, and I have not had the will to completely smother mine yet, though the concept is slowly becoming more palatable as time goes on due to the current state of our civilization.
There's no question that better people make a better state. The same is true of any gun. Only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun.
This is the point of the watchmen state. The tools of violence and coercion must be kept out of the hands of just "anyone", and the use of those tools must be extremely limited in scope to protect civilization, and the people making a better world.
The government can't make a moral world, because the government is amoral. Only people can make a moral world, and a good watchmen or vangaurd has a responsibility to step back and allow you to make a better world.