leninology.co.uk/2014/12/torture-works.html Torture works. It procures an evidentiary basis for convictions and supports dominant narratives about a global conspiracy against civilization. It supplies a flow of information justifying bureaucratic practices. Of course most of the information is bullshit, and none of it leads to the disruption of major plots. It intimidates and punishes enemies of the state. This does not necessarily break resistance movements. It identifies social inferiors. This is a sociological commonplace. From this perspective, it is the critique, not torture, that is ineffectual.
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