RE: [WDDM] Lata's Recent Comments

[Hamid Mohseni <esi1mohseni2(at)hotmail.com>]

Good night Fred

We should not forget that it is the present corrupt democracies and diktator societies which gives enough economicall and politicall power to few individuals and
in this way makes it possible for them to manipulate and decieve peoiple by propaganda and other means. In proper functioning democracies it would be more
difficult for few people to manipulate others for their own interest because the power is shared between bigge number of individuals.

Regard
Hamid

> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:09:38 -0400
> From: fredgohlke(at)verizon.net
> To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net
> Subject: Re: [WDDM] Lata's Recent Comments
>
> Good Morning, Bruce
>
> The notion that 'the people' can meet in assembly and conduct our
> government is flawed. The people, taken as a group, are easily
> manipulated ... as was shown when the majority of Americans were
> persuaded that Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction and was a
> threat to our country.
>
> This is but the most outrageous example of our susceptibility to the
> deceit that permeates our society. We are inundated with examples of
> it, daily, from the outrages perpetrated by the financiers (and
> underwritten at the people's expense by their government) to the
> pharmaceutical company that implements its government-ordered retraction
> of its false and misleading advertising with ads that are even more
> deceptive than those they were ordered to disavow.
>
> Although there are, among us, people who are not susceptible to this
> onslaught of hyperbole and deceit, they are in the minority. We need
> their thoughtful guidance.
>
>
> re: "We can make these decisions as an Assembly and than command
> our 'elected representatives' to carry out our commands."
>
> Perhaps you have an infantile need to control. I don't. While you
> focus on 'command', my thoughts are on gaining consensus.
>
>
> re: "... You want us to do the representatives bidding. Back to
> the King and his men commanding the slaves."
>
> This is a foolish and unwarranted misstatement of my suggestion. If you
> wish to cite my objectives, please do so accurately.
>
>
> Your suggestion that I delete one of my statements is improper. It is,
> however, an excellent example of why your attitude is immature and
> unhealthy. If you wish to refute an assertion, propound a better one.
>
> My preference is that we discontinue this exchange. Our views are so
> discordant, reconciling them is unlikely.
>
> Fred Gohlke