I refer to Christoph's message:
At 22:29 25/03/01 +0200, you wrote:
(KH)
>> We are developing a new sort of "democracy". It's far more powerful than
>> the old-fashioned electoral system of two centuries ago
(CR)
>"More powerful" in the sense of (concentrated) power but not in the sense of
>democracy !
Let's not get carried away by this word "democracy". It's so often used as
a short-cut to thinking. There's nothing better than the usual meaning of
it (one person one vote) when everybody is affected by an issue and
everybody has expert knowledge of it. But this is increasingly not the case
in modern times. The only way that so-called democracy seems to work in
western countries is by spending increasingly vast amounts of money in
publicising show-biz type elections. This is a pathetic attempt to shore up
a failing system. Turnouts will continue to decline and the public will
become increasingly cynical about the calibre and integrity of politicians.
Keith Hudson
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