On Sun, 18 Jan 1998 08:17:13 GMT, Colin Stark wrote:
> >What's the use of Direct Democracy if the people is brainwashed by
> >corporate media and misinformed to take the wrong decisions ?
>
> Is it not likely that "the people" are less brainwashed than those who are
> doing the brainwashing? 'Cos it is the lattter who are the elite who
> currently make the decisions.
Currently, yes. But we're talking about DD where the _people_ make the
decisions. My point was that corporate media lead DD ad absurdum / make
DD useless, because misinformed people will make wrong decisions. I didn't
say that DD is worse than representative democracy.
>
> >How can ecological revolution succeed democratically with a majority of
> >polluting egoists and "No Future" idiots ?
>
> S;owly, and with great difficulty, and it will probably get worse before it
> gets better.
Do you think we have this time ?
>
> Do you have any better paths to follow?
Well, I have proposed a path on FW back in January 1997.
Chris
