From: | Antonio Rossin <rossin(at)tin.it> |
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Date: | Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:31:26 +0200 |
Subject: | Re: [WDDM] Repeted answer to Antonio |
Antonio Rossin wrote:I do not follow you here.
G:
You should then explain me how can people live outside a stratified
society. The problem is the stratified society built to keep the
elites
wealthy and powerful. Democracy well serves this goal.
A:
Not exactly, Democracy. But a political arrangement, deceptively called
"democracy", in which the people Democratically renounced Democracy
G:
Here we go again. You say there's democracy and Democracy. I'm sure
there's
dEMOCRACY too and a friend of mine knows someone who claimes he saw
a DeMoCraCy once. Calling different situations with the same name
generates
only confusion. On the other hand pretending an existing situation is
"better"
that it really is remains a bad sign of schizophrenia IMHO.
Please let's separate dreams from reality. Dreams are a necessary
drive for
anyone. But reality has its own necessities.
History has always shown just one face of democracy, no matter how youI don't follow you, here. The term for the elites ruling the people is
like to write it. It's about 2500 years that the elites are
"democratically" ruling
the people.
I find also deceitful the concept of Tribal Democracy like the political
system adopted by the Bushmen. They discuss social issues till everyone
agrees with the final solution. No majority involved, no numbers to
count.
Just what they all really need.
A: Where the people are
able to question the authority, and the authority provides the people
with
the fit rooms in which the people can question the authority itself
(be it
political, religious or scientific authority, it doesn't matter. It
is the dialectic
method of discussing everything, learned since babyhood, what matters)
((IMHO))
Questioning is not always a sign of wisdom. Would you question driving on
the right lane?
Discussions are very important, but at times they are a sufficient
alibi to
deny any change.
But unfortunately, the oil is no endless energy resource. Perhaps in forty,
Dear Giorgio,
I cannot control the offer of oil in the markets of London and New York.
I can only control my demand of oil
Do you own a solar powered car maybe? You can't control nearly anything
in the oil process. Surely you need it to move, and you (anyone,
actually)
indirectly use a huge amount of it even without moving. I read somewhere
that the few KJoule of a steak are nothing compared to the KJoule
needed to
transport, stock, refrigerate and cook it. Can you control this? The
system is
too big now to be controlled. And i'm quite sure that even at the top
of the
pyramidal societies people don't know much how to handle it. It's enough
for them to keep it running the way they like it.
Regards
Giorgio