Regards,
Helmut
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Dear Helmut,
I appreciate your opinion and don't want to
'argue' against it, just as a sideline on your words:
"western democracies":
1. My opinion: there is NO democracy in the
world, one cannot find in ANY community at least two members with
identical ideas, aims, interest and (detailed) opinion. So what those
so called 'ballot wins' represent are 'lesser evil choices' and passing
on the decision-making to (indeed unknown) liars who 'campaign'
(euphemie for "lying what the voters like to hear, to get the vote")
even maybe unconsciously: the 'running' person mostly does not even
know what he will be able to do when in power.
2. Capitalism and democracy don't mix: the
former is a small group with large means ruling over a large group
with meager (if any) means - no matter how euphemistically one puts it.
(3. - I have to add: the 2 centuries-obsolete
"socialism" is also an oxymoron as could be seen in ANY place where it
was written on banners of such movements (Marx, etc.) turning the
'leaders' into powermonger despots - hypocrisy or not - most of them
with lifestyles matching the super-wealthy in capitalist systems.)
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With the ongoing level of average information
in the world, a "World Government" would be no different, unless
Archangel Michael (0r another) comes down to install it from select and
not humanly thinking individuals - without ANY religious prejudice.
Just we should not call anything a
'democracy' and wage wars to install it upon societies that don't want
it - preferring some different system(s).
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In my analysis:
capitalism died out from the 1970s giving way
to a new econo-global feudalism in which
the 'wealthy' (the lords)
own power, government, legislature and the 'votes' they bought
to pretend a 'democratic' electedness and - on the other side:
the rest of the populace working for money
(the serfs) are dispensable. No matter for how much money
they work. (The distinctions have transitional spheres, I refrain from
rigid labeling. The US econo-feudalism carries 'two parties' in one
system. E.g.: the Iraqi war etc.).
Best regards
John Mikes