On 27 Dec 2014, at 11:44 pm, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 27 Dec 2014, at 03:11, Kim Jones wrote: >> >> Democracy is a concept. It can be implemented in various ways. I like Liz's >> conceptualisation of it as communist-style sharing of astcronomical wealth >> and resources among the elites with cockroaches and urine for breakfast for >> the rest of us (that's what prisoners in North Korea get given for breakfast >> according to QC Geoffrey Robertson.) No one who gets jugged hare and Beluga >> caviar for lunch around Pyongyang feels like they exist in anything other >> than a perfect democracy. > > Bruno: I doubt this. I am sure that all dictator knows pretty well that they > are not in a democracy. They fight democracy by all means. So why do they call this place "The DEMOCRATIC People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) ?? Is this some kind of joke or insincere label? Oh, that's right - they have simply misunderstood the true nature of democracy, because they don't subscribe to this list, silly me. They have defined "democracy" the way they choose; just as does every country who finds this a useful concept. As I said: democracy is a concept and concepts have many many ways of being implemented or delivered. Clearly, the trick they employ in the DPRK is to define "the people" differently to other countries. That something like two-thirds of the "population" of the DPRK don't even officially exist (ie no birth record kept) appears to be the magic trick. The kernel concept of democracy is government by the majority. So, all you have to do to have a workable majority is to erase a sizeable part of the population. Voilà. Government for and by the majority. K -- 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.
