Democracy is rotten to the core and always was. Democracy represents the greatest and most perverse failure of the human imagination possible. Democracy enshrines argument and warefare as the only way forward in any situation where values are competing. Attack and defence are the only buttons and levers that democracy can pres or pull. The difference between democracy and other systems is merely cosmetic. All human political systems are founded on the hunter-gatherer mentality of "protect our tribe from other tribes" and there is quite simply no further vision. Humans cannot escape their warlike nature with clever intellectual sleight-of-hand. Governments are hampered by opposition parties who see it as their sole responsibility to oppose everything the government proposes, thereby bogging the process of change and improvement down in endless squabbling and self-righteous justification. In other words, the "best" system we have is one where you and I walk down the road side by side and at every pace I try to kick you in the kneecap and you try to kick me in the kneecap. The absurdity of such a system is mind-numbingly obvious. Humans may finally realise that we would be maybe four, maybe five hundred years ahead of where we are now for the price of the effort involved in devising a system of parallel thinking to replace the global trait of adversarial thinking.
I'm not going to hold my breath though, waiting for this to happen. Humans are never open to the idea that their biggest flaw is the design-deficient nature of human thinking. Technology, science and art are the only games humans play well. All of ther games played by humans end in tragedy and bloodshed. Kim Jones -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
