> The black-and-white, spy-vs-spy world of the FBI left little room for philosophical nuance and literary ambiguity, after all.
It's classic authoritarian thinking where even the perception of a small stain ruins the entire outfit.
But then, in stating the above that way I have, that could be an example of the same; putting into a small box those who put others into a small box.
In defense of my argument: it is the policy and process of intelligence services and law enforcement that creates the small box thinking, not the individuals who are employed to pursue it, whilst those they are putting into the small boxes are individuals with all the many colours of opinion, subjectivity, and experience that make up their whole, and cannot be accurately small-boxed.
> The black-and-white, spy-vs-spy world of the FBI left little room for philosophical nuance and literary ambiguity, after all.
It's classic authoritarian thinking where even the perception of a small stain ruins the entire outfit.
But then, in stating the above that way I have, that could be an example of the same; putting into a small box those who put others into a small box.
In defense of my argument: it is the policy and process of intelligence services and law enforcement that creates the small box thinking, not the individuals who are employed to pursue it, whilst those they are putting into the small boxes are individuals with all the many colours of opinion, subjectivity, and experience that make up their whole, and cannot be accurately small-boxed.