This is a somewhat insouciant video, 8 minutes long, put out by Vice DVD, with maybe a little too much hipness for my taste (Can't believe I’d find something too hip, but there it is). If you object to casual cursing and the sound of people whooping as they shoot machine guns, then turn down the sound. It's really the images that are the most important. As a look at the security situation in the Northwest Provinces and in the tribal areas, with Afghanistan, et cetera, et cetera, it is very telling.
And besides the all-important security questions:
As a political economist, I am knocked back by the persistence of market forces–and the technical capability of the state, which is currently expended on security and could be utilitized on dams, mechanics, new energy grids, and so forth. And as a philosopher, I can't help but think about Hobbes’ war of all against all”.
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And this video provides a little food for thought concerning Pakistan's martial law as well. I am not in favor of martial law–but I do think we need to think more deeply about democracy and its effect on security–and vice versa. Clearly the Easy Answer will not work.
Special thanks to Vice DVD, for bringing the images forward to us all.
