Japan as 'bastion of freedom’

 

アガンベンのコロナ対策批判についての記事。立場は一貫しているけれど、NYTで読むとなんというか場違いな感じがする。アメリカの政治言説とずれ過ぎていて。Meet the Philosopher Who Is Trying to Explain the Pandemic https://t.co/nxiHJ2c5Wl

— mozu (@mozumozumozu) August 22, 2020

フーコーもピューリタンの手に渡れば監視と処罰のマニュアルになってしまう。

— mozu (@mozumozumozu) August 22, 2020

 The arguments for discipline and prevention may often be resented — but they have a lot of scientific authority behind them, and they carry the day. Better safe than sorry. Late last month, Italy’s parliament voted to extend the government’s state of emergency until Oct. 15.

In a society that respects science, expertise confers power. That has good results, but it brings a terrible problem: Illegitimate political power can be disguised as expertise. This was a favorite idea of the French philosopher Michel Foucault, who used it to explain how experts had expanded definitions of criminality and sexual deviancy.

His argument about the coronavirus runs along similar lines: The emergency declared by public-health experts replaces the discredited narrative of “national security experts” as a pretext for withdrawing rights and privacy from citizens. “Biosecurity” now serves as a reason for governments to rule in terms of “worst-case scenarios.” This means there is no level of cases or deaths below which locking down an entire nation of 60 million becomes unreasonable. Many European governments, including Italy’s, have developed national contact tracing apps that allow them to track their citizens using cellphones.

自然科学知が権力として個人の自由を制限し、国民はなんとはなしにそれに服従する。

欧米は普段は自由だ！自由だ！といいながらいざとなると、さっと自由を制限してしまう。

日本は普段は、保守的だ、保守的だと”欧米”から評価されているが、いざというとき個人の自由をーー少なくとも”欧米”よりは擁護しているし、政府もはみ出そうとしない。

上から目線、差別意識に満ちた外国特派員の固定観念がどうにかならないかなああ。