Tournament: Swing | Round: 1 | Opponent: THIS SYSTEM IS STUPID | Judge:
The new stage of politics creates first a global concentration camp, then nuclear annihilation – all in the name of Progress and speed. 

This acceleration has eroded the very conditions of possibility for liberal democracy – the traditional mechanisms of civic life have been rendered obsolete by the instability of time itself. we imbue the executive with ever greater authority to maintain stability in face of nebulous threats
Scheuerman 1 (William E. Scheuerman, professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. “Liberal Democracy and the Empire of Speed.” Polity, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Autumn, 2001), pp. 41-67
II. The Space and Time Horizons of Traditional Liberal Democracy¶ Assumptions about space
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human condition: the temporal gap between past and future is eerily reduced.

the power of the unitary executive is the final accident – the collapse of technology and the world as we know it. the moment of decision is now colonized by the speed of politics.
Grove 8 (jairus, phd in ir at jhopkins, asst professor at u of hawaii, Schmitt’s Sovereign ‘Exception’, the American Constitution, and Presidential Nuclear Power)
As legal scholar Paul Hemesath rightly points out, the end of mutual deterrence means
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nuclear weapons, her/his despotism determines the fate of the world.

In our struggle to find stability, we replace the executive with the bedrock of technology itself, a totalitarian robot that embodies our obsession with speed and our desire to harness it
Adams 3 (Jason Adams, M.A. candidate in political science at Simon Fraser University, 2003, “Popular Defense in the Empire of Speed: Paul Virilio and the Phenomenology of the Political Body,” Thesis, http://www.academia.edu/attachments/2058093/download_file
As we saw in the last chapter. Virilio‘s critique of the mass
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ecological warfare by which this transformation is being enforced on a global scale.

Cyberwar is the apotheosis of this quest for control – the locus of our deterrent is transferred from the atom to the electron, fulfilling our dreams of instantaneous and absolute response. With the culmination of pure war comes the specter of the integral accident: global in scope and generalized in nature
Virilio 6 (Paul Virilio. 2006. The Information Bomb. pp. 131-145)
Globalization is not so much, then, the accomplishment of the acceleration of history
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pollution of a small planet held in suspension in the ether of telecommunications.

Vote affirmative to endorse restrictions on the unitary executive over cyber warfare. Liberalism closes off deliberation because it’s afraid where true discussion will take us, instead investing the executive with the authority to narrate the present into the future. Vote aff to open debate to uncertainty.

Nate and I are not politicians and certainly not the executive. However, as students and individuals, we can work on the “arts of the self” to foster more respectable politics in a world of speed.
Connolly 95 William, Professor of Political Science at John Hopkins, The Ethos of Pluralization, pg at bottom
With this background we are in a position to delineate the constitu¬tive ambiguity of a
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present and in the future honored by the regulative ideal of ambivalent democracy.
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The thesis of emergent causality necessitates that our refusal of the unitary executive. The complexity of politics is beyond a sole decision maker, to create a despot is go all in on that which is unwinnable
Campbell et al 2k7 David Campbell: Int’l boundaries Research, Geography Department, Durham U: with Stuart Elden and Stephen Graham Luiza Bialasiewisz: Department of Geography at Royal Holloway U of London, and Alex Jeffrey from the School of Geography at the U of Newcastle, “Performing security: The imaginative geographies of current US strategy” pg on bottom

Methodologically this approach requires an alternative model of explanation, one best explicated by the
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weaken it only if it does not spawn new persona to replace them.
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Aimlessly pondering is unproductive. The hail of the affirmative is to create a positive method for democratic governance, sheltered from the speed of modern politics.
Connolly 2k2 William, Professor of Political Science at John Hopkins University, Neuropolitics, pg at bottom of card
Arendt fears that the late-modern acceleration of pace accentu¬ates a dangerous nostalgia to
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so fast that the promise of democ¬racy becomes translated into fascist becoming machines.
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The transfer of power to the executive was done out of fear; fear of the future, fear of inaction, and fear of death. This fear is now informational, tied to cyberspace and creating policies of irrationality and terror. Find the courage to reject the dominate narrative of speed.
Virilio 11 – paul, art and fear,  
The imbalance of terror has also taken an apocalyptic slant, in the religious sense
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of instantaneity. The acceleration of reality is a significant mutation in History. 

Ethics and practices of the self are micropolitcs where self-artistry shapes intersubjective relations and is a prerequisite to effective macropolitical change. If we don’t look inwards to the way that we deal with politics first ethics and politics is doomed to failure and the worst atrocities of the status quo. Debate is not just a one and done speech stop, the ethical practices we cultivate are important for politics.
Connolly 99 William, Professor of Political Science at John Hopkins, Why I am Not a Secularist pg 148-149
What is an art of the self from one perspective is micropolitics from another.
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most intensive and most fateful at those junctures where micropolitics and macropolitics intersect.

Nothing is fundamental; therefore almost everything counts as something. An ethics that is critically reflexive doesn’t take faith as a fixed concept but is rather contestable. This focuses agonistic respect creating different constituencies candy creates difference into otherness.
Connolly 95 William, Professor of Political Science at John Hopkins, The Ethos of Pluralization, pg at bottom
We might initially pretend to know, for instance, that being lacks a definite
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diversity of being honors both the indispensability and the fragility of ethics.34
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