From: | Giorgio Menon <giorgio.menon(at)pd.infn.it> |
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Date: | Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:10:56 +0200 |
Subject: | Re: [WDDM] Repeted answer to Antonio |
I do not follow you here.
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.
First: because there is difference from the reality outside, and the
reality inside
our words. Do you know about Alfred Korzybski's renown axiom:
"*The map is not the territory*"? As how I understand it, our
descriptions of reality are all maps of the reality
outside.
Second, and subsequent: Since all of what we put into words about reality
are maps, let's agree that one's map can be better than another's.
Third: "Reality", has no necessities. It is the one who maps out the
reality,
who has necessities, according with one's own ability to draw out and
read
maps, and the usefulness of the latter in avoiding blind alleys, ruins
and like.
History has always shown just one face of democracy, no matter how you
like to write it. It's about 2500 years that the elites are
"democratically" ruling
the people.
I don't follow you, here. The term for the elites ruling the people is
oligarchy,
and not "democracy". Period.
Questioning is not always a sign of wisdom. Would you question
driving on
the right lane?
Of course I do.
First, I question myself for whether that is the right lane.
If I'm unable to experience it myself, I search for the authority who
decided
that that is the right lane, and question him-her for which criteria
he-she used
to decide that that was the right lane.
Any question more ? ;-)
But unfortunately, the oil is no endless energy resource. Perhaps in
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
forty,
perhaps in fifty years the oil will end. But it will end: may I
suggest you,
while wishing you an everlasting life, to be prepared for the oil end by
providing yourself with a bicycle? Maybe some training with it could be
the case.
Ciao,
antonio