On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 12 Jun 2014, at 13:39, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > The inconceivable freedom is in your heart, but give time to time, >> > > You are right and I'll shut up now :) > > > Please don't shut up! > > As long as we stay polite the fun is in the conversation, ... in the > detours sometimes. > My main motivation for shutting up here is that I fully agree, but sometimes forget, that freedom is 1p. I do feel bad for going off-topic. I think that you and others, who contribute a lot to the main topic of this mailing list, deserve more leeway than me in going off-topic. So since you're asking, I feel comfortable with arguing a bit more. (I was being sarcastic when I said the politician "misspeak". I was referring to the sort of doublespeak and euphemisms they employ. Of course they lie.) The reason why I suspect that democracy is not stable, is that it might always degrade to a Keynesian beauty contest. Modern democracy originated from enlightenment ideals, of raising human potential -- raising the average. The trouble is that, the best strategy to win elections is to pander to the average. A political movement that attempts to raise the average will lose to the Keynesian beauty contest players in the long term. So I am arguing that democracy contains in itself the evolutionary pressure that generates its own demise. I hope I'm missing something. Best, Telmo. > > Thanks > > > I thank you, > > Bruno > > > >> it is not that easy when we are two, saying nothing about three and more. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
