Whistleblowing as the Highest Form of Civic and Political Engagement

Fred Guerin @ Truthout - What would it be like to live in a world where dissent was no longer permissible? We appropriately associate the right to dissent with the right of free speech. Dissent is also understood as the most important means through which we can expose injustice. However, in a much more elemental sense, if we no longer had the capacity to dissent, we would inevitably become incapable of experiencing something new, of seeing through deception or of making corrections and broadening our understanding. In fact, at a philosophical level, if we were no longer capable of dissent, a good part of what we describe as "thinking" would gradually be lost to us.  Read more.