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Quote by: The Bacon Guy  I don't know where these obscure definitions of democracy come from. Democracy is quite simply a system in which decisions are made by the majority.
I don't know about anyone else, but I haven't seen the majority supporting reason, justice, freedom or respect of private property recently. Faith in democracy requires faith in people; something I certainly don't have. |
Literacy in Greek and Roman classics would be helpful, and I keep hoping if I say this often enough, people might start reading the classics to see what they have to say. But it is not just a matter of reading the record of political thinking that brings us to democracy. Regaining the consciousness of the original democracy, includes understanding numbers and shapes as the ancients did, as symbols of principles available to teach us about the natural structure and processes of the universe and to give us a perspective on human nature. What I am talking about is wholistic.
It makes me want to puke when some bimbo on the Early Show, interveiwing Kincinch (a democractic presidential candidate) and his wife, and wastes this valuable time making an issue over his wife having a stud in her tongue. Our culture is so frivilous, and now so immature, we have turned democracy into something awful. Sure you don't see the character traits a democracy requires. We stopped educating for that in 1958. An educated mass is very important to a democracy, and that does not mean, preparing products for industry as we have been doing since 1958.