Vikileaks continue despite Toew's efforts...

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Vic Toews and Adam Carroll in Hayez's Before the Inquisition (ca 1830s).

    Vic Toews' story is pertinent to the blog for two reasons -- Vic Toews is of Russlander Mennonite descent and the story is an amazingly predictable illustration of Postmodern digital network lifestyles and a Modernist's attempt to direct and contain the Postmodern... Perhaps a form of Scopes Monkey Trial in the United States which helped delineate the final stages of Modernity overthrowing the last of its pre-Modern or Scholastic Fideistic heritage.

     Appreciable are Toew's dual moralities -- he seems to want to know and publish everything about everyone else, but protect that which embarrasses him.  Also, based on earlier speeches and stances regarding the sanctity of marriage, he is obviously living in a dual morality that excludes his own early personal potential failings or weaknesses while using the reins of government to hold others to a higher legal standard -- as unimpressed Mennonite converts were wont to say in the pre-Reformation -- "give my regards to the priest, and also to the woman who serves as his wife."  (The quote being a gross liberty taken from early Reformation anti-clerical tracts).  

Vic Toews' Privacy Issue

Vic Toews in the Public Lens

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    Vic Toews, Stephen Harper’s Minister of Public Safety and Mennonite-heritage Canadian politician, has recently generated a bit of a public debate – one pertaining directly to the Postmodern experience in the control and manipulation of the digital universe.

    The controversy stems from three character trends of the Post-modern identity experience – the perceived lack of individual privacy, the increasing atmosphere of George Orwell’s Big Brother security that sees all, knows all and processes all, and the rapid, irrevocable, transmission of information – any and all information, no matter how sensitive, no matter how private, no matter how truthful.

    In a turn-of-events that many Canadians are interpreting as well deserved comeuppance, Canada’s own potential Big Brother found the personal details of his somewhat messy divorce broadcast across the country for all to maul through and judge.