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i looked through the information you brought with you. i can see why you having trouble
. what's your assesment of him if there's such a thing as political offenders in this
society managed by the sibyl system this man would be one of them. terrorists anarchist
s agitators suicidal revolutionaries with no interest in the people...there's not a
decent man among them. by the way what would you say is the definition of anarchism it's
a denial of government and authority but different from flat-out chaos and disorder. that's right
. it's about denying an inhuman control system and building a more human system. makishima
is close to being an anarchist but since he delights so much in destruction he's somew
hat different to the original meaning of the word. an inhuman control system... sibyl then
if iwere to borrow max weber's words ideal bureucrats are those who intently perform
their duty without anger or fondness without hate or zeal and without love or personal
predilection. in that sense the sibyl system may be close to the ideal bureaucratic administration
. but that's assuming that all the details we know about sibyl are true. makishima told
me on the phone that he came to know the true form of sibyl. he said it something worth
putting my life on the line to protect. let me quote a little more from max weber. bureau
cratic administration dominates the people through knowledge. technical knowledge and
practical knowledge. keeping that knowledge increases their superiority. makishima is
trying to strip that superiority away. and he almost succeded. those riots pushed society
right up to a very dangerous line. and the ministry of welfare made some sort of proposal
to makishima. however he refused that proposal . i'd like to talk to this makishima guy sometime
in a session recorded on video or audio. for your research he doesn't interest me in that
way yet. it'd be purely to help your investigation . if makishima was here right now how do you
think he'd join our conversation he would ... probably respond by quoating foucault
or jeremy bentham the moment you quoted max weber. is it really a system or more like
a huge prison the panopticon...a facility that allows you to observere everyone at once
. sibyl is its worst possible form. you can control the maximum number of prisoners with
the minium number of guards. he might even quote gulliver's travels. he's a cynical man
with a distorted sense of humor. i see. so he lampoons science and politics that have
become too advanced. he's that kind of man .