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Sodfather · Sep 1, 2003, 07:30 pm

Governments are really crazy these days. Democracy is quite different today from what the Greeks intended, I'm sure, and all attempts at a utopia spiral down into a big ball of fascim. :)

I'll start with Communism...

Sure it looks great on paper, but time has proved that it turns into one big mess in practice. And even if it did work, who would willingly live under Communistic rule? The monotony of everyone being the same, brainwashed individual would be unbearable, don't you think? Before you go ahead and choose Communism, I strongly recommend you go ahead and read George Orwell's vision of a Communist world in the book 1984. Quite scary.

Now for democracy...Not much to be said. Until every public school can provide Harvard-quality courses, I don't think democracy will work exactly as planned. The whole thing is basically about the people being educated enough to make sound choices, as opposed to today's America where the level of education is way below where it should be resulting in authority figures trampling all over civil rights and the people and just about everything democratic. You need people that can withstand a plane crashing into a building without throwing every last one of their rights out of the window just so they can be "safe."

Dictatorship...This is my choice, and also the choice of a little someone you might know - Socrates. The flaw in this government is that the dictator has to be the right guy, someone capable of ruling without abusing the power. That's virtually impossible...Often the power is just passed down to offspring and somewhat of an oligarchy can begin to form. Perhaps if this "right guy" was in charge from day one, he'd be able to pick another "right guy" to take his place and that person would be able to choose yet another "right guy" to rule and so on and so forth.

I won't mention the other forms of government because I'm too tired, but my second choice is probably a tie between the Democracy/Communism compromise and just Democracy. The New Deal (American movement during the Great Depression) was very successful, but we'll never know if it would hve worked in the long run because it has been gradually torn apart by subsequent administrations.

Note: Go easy on all the mistakes I've made in this post, I'm only posting it to give you guys something else to arg...I mean "debate" about. Have fun. :)

Sep 1, 2003, 07:30 pm	#1 (permalink) (top)
Sodfather Igneous Magma Posts: 327	Governments are really crazy these days. Democracy is quite different today from what the Greeks intended, I'm sure, and all attempts at a utopia spiral down into a big ball of fascim. :) I'll start with Communism... Sure it looks great on paper, but time has proved that it turns into one big mess in practice. And even if it did work, who would willingly live under Communistic rule? The monotony of everyone being the same, brainwashed individual would be unbearable, don't you think? Before you go ahead and choose Communism, I strongly recommend you go ahead and read George Orwell's vision of a Communist world in the book 1984. Quite scary. Now for democracy...Not much to be said. Until every public school can provide Harvard-quality courses, I don't think democracy will work exactly as planned. The whole thing is basically about the people being educated enough to make sound choices, as opposed to today's America where the level of education is way below where it should be resulting in authority figures trampling all over civil rights and the people and just about everything democratic. You need people that can withstand a plane crashing into a building without throwing every last one of their rights out of the window just so they can be "safe." Dictatorship...This is my choice, and also the choice of a little someone you might know - Socrates. The flaw in this government is that the dictator has to be the right guy, someone capable of ruling without abusing the power. That's virtually impossible...Often the power is just passed down to offspring and somewhat of an oligarchy can begin to form. Perhaps if this "right guy" was in charge from day one, he'd be able to pick another "right guy" to take his place and that person would be able to choose yet another "right guy" to rule and so on and so forth. I won't mention the other forms of government because I'm too tired, but my second choice is probably a tie between the Democracy/Communism compromise and just Democracy. The New Deal (American movement during the Great Depression) was very successful, but we'll never know if it would hve worked in the long run because it has been gradually torn apart by subsequent administrations. Note: Go easy on all the mistakes I've made in this post, I'm only posting it to give you guys something else to arg...I mean "debate" about. Have fun. :)