From: | Antonio Rossin <rossin(at)tin.it> |
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Date: | Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:43:38 +0200 |
Subject: | Re: [WDDM] Anarchism and Direct Democracy |
Dear Giorgio, sorry, I do not find anything news in your last post, but cheap irony and sarcasm only. Let's hope in a better future, antonio Giorgio Menon ha scritto: On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:28:13 +0200, Antonio Rossin wroteDear Giorgio, Please don't go off-topic.Offtopic you say? I thought that talking about all the possible alternative to the current political mess was the topic. If i'm wrong my apologies. Let's talk about soccer then, do you agree?I read the definition of the word anarchy, anarchism etc. in my English "Oxford Advanced Learner's" Dictionary, and notice that the definition there doesn't fit to "something that has ruled mankind's social behaviour for millenia and has been replaced by democracy just in recent times"Of course your dictionary is the best. Written by the same community that keeps things together since the advent of social stratification, it MUST offer better definitions than other communities (like Wiki, an community open to popular contributions). Of course you're right again. But let me say the history remains history and while recent history (since agricolture was adopted) has offered mankind a variety of rulers (kings, queens, dictators, democrats and anything that could sustain social stratification) less recent history had been built upon different premises. Ah, for what it's worthg reminding it, we are talking about 23h and 54 min of the 24 hour clock, as Jared Diamond says in his mind boggling essay: http://www.awok.org/worst_mistake/ "If the history of the human race began at midnight, then we would now be almost at the end of our first day. We lived as hunter-gatherers for nearly the whole of that day, from midnight through dawn, noon, and sunset. Finally, at 11:54 p. m. we adopted agriculture..... Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny. Hunter-gatherers practiced the most successful and longest-lasting life style in human history. In contrast, we're still struggling with the mess into which agriculture has tumbled us, and it's unclear whether we can solve it." We did pretty well for 99.99% of our past, we are doing no good now, seems to me. Of course this is again an off-topic statement. My apologies.Let's agree, to do so, those people must have given themselves some kind of social organization, or "..archy" - be it tribe, or dictatorship, or whatever you like it better, but no arrangement at all sounds idiotic nonsense.Here we go again: does anarchy mean ONLY lack of organization whatsoever, pure chaos? Sure, in the sick mind of the compilers of your "Oxford Advanced Learner's" Dictionary. It surely disturbs that anarchy may have signified dignity and equal rights for all members of the communities that have menaged to survive for so many millennia without causing too many troubles to the environment as current democracies. But forgive my idiotic nonsenses. Maybe i need a neurologist. I still like to remind you that in ancient greek Archòs means leader. Add the suffix An and you get the word "without leader". An impossible option these days. Find the guru and be happy, don't worry, he'll fix all your problems. Don't worry about searching the true meaning of the words. You must have faith on dictionaries specialists. If other specialists disagree don't worry to challenge your own opinions: leave facts alone and don't let them speak. What better definition of fundamentalism? GiorgioNow I read in the wikipedia that some people offered another definition for that word. Of course feel free to call "cat" a dog, and "dog" a horse, as you like it better. I must admit, the OAL dictionary is fourth edition only, 1989. Perhaps in a later edition the definition has changed. Giorgio Menon ha scritto:Antonio Rossin wrote:Dear Mirek, you did not answer my post. Let me quote what you did not of it: ...Well now, I have nothing against some inhabitants of the world who decide to adopt a different, personal meaning for words that have a shared meaning by the remaining majority of the inhabitants the world. But -- if they do so -- they are a sect, not a member of democracy. BTW, I go back to my shareable OAL dictionary, and read under the item "sect": - Sect = group of people who share (esp religious) beliefs or opinions which differ from those of most people.Dear Antonio, i cannot understand your refusal to accept anarchy as something that has ruled mankind's social behaviour for millenia and has been replaced by democracy just in recent times, after the creation of the elites (elites, mind you, allow top-down and bottom-up, impossible in anarchy). About sect: your definition perfectly fits neurologists (among others), seems to me. Are you a member of that sect? Does it feel wrong, weird or else? How can a member of that sect actively partecipate to DD, if i may ask? Why can neurologists partecipate but anarchists cannot? Regards Giorgio PS my compliments to Mirek for the clarity of his post and position. Noble and democratic are postive attributs forged in the workshops of nobles and democrats (guess why?) while anarchy (maybe) represents a direct threat to those workshops drop forging words and minds.-- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) |