Episode 035 - The panopticon

The Corbett Report Podcast

The Corbett Report

Politics, News

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2008

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In the late 18th century, Jeremy Bentham came up with the plan for the perfect prison. The prison was never built, but it is being used as a blueprint for a surveillance society in which our every move is being tracked and recorded. In the end, the prisoners will police themselves.

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0:00.0	Your name is Big Brother.
0:16.0	You say that you are
0:19.0	tell you on the tele telling saying me going nowhere.
0:23.0	Your name is Big Brother.
0:30.0	You say that you're talking.
0:31.0	You say that you're tired of me protesting of children dying every day.
0:49.0	My name is nobody. But I can't wait to see your face inside my door.
0:57.0	Oh. Oh. Your name is Big Brother.
1:07.0	You say that you got me all in the middle.
1:10.0	You say that you got me all in the middle
1:14.0	fighting it down every day.
1:19.0	Welcome my friends,
1:24.5	friends. Welcome to another edition of the Corbett Report. I am your host
1:28.6	James Corbett, podcasting to you as always from the sunny climes of Western Japan on this second day of March 2008.
1:37.0	I'd like to remind all my listeners that you can find the documentation backing up all of the statements made in today's episode from my website
1:47.0	W. W.W. dot Corbett report.com.
1:50.0	I'd also like to direct my listeners to the article section of our website, which has been gaining some notoriety recently as one of our stories made the top story on Prison Planet.com last week.
2:02.0	And on that note, it's time on Prison Planet.com last week.
2:03.0	And on that note, it's time for the real news. Our first news story this week comes from the Seattle Times, February 29th, 2008.
2:22.0	Should Rhodes have tolls to fight global warming?
2:27.0	Two global warming bills likely to pass the legislature this session could open the door to
2:31.2	tolls on major highways in the Central Puget Sound region
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