You old sweetie Allan. On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 10:40:08 UTC, archytas wrote: > > I don't do history. Recently, I've been writing a book that starts out in > 492 BCE and the voyage of the Persian, Mardonius, sailing the Mediterranean > creating democratic government in Ionia, replacing tyrants. My broad case > is that democracy was well-known in the Achaemenid Empire and was always > really a form of participative management - rule by rhetoric under a myth > of freedom. The Greeks were slavers, sexist, racist and generally > unpleasant. The real structure of democracy was always rule by aristocrats > and the only people 'free' were these toffs. It all looks a bit like Magna > Carta where the freemen were very few in number. I want to link this 'Dark > Athens' to the modern day and our current denial of genuine rule of > ourselves through new structures of language and institutions possible > through new technologies. >
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