Phil Henshaw wrote:
The ideal product of democracy is decision making that reflects a whole
understanding of things by integrating all points of view. Trouble develops
when the points of view that believe in suppressing all others take over.
I have my doubts about the evolutionary
The Genius of James Madison was to see that a large country with many
factions would be freer from factionalism that a small country would be.
The factions would cancel each other out. Factionalism was the greatest
threat to democracy that the founders saw. Much the same applies to
corporations
Giles Bowkett wrote:
The ideal solution would be something incredibly simple, where a skull
would only become alerted to the wand's existence if the wand was in a
particular range of X feet, with X ideally being a small number like
5, and further, where the wand's signal could only be picked
Whether a 'marketplace' for ideas works efficiently or not, or simply
supresses any innovation departing from the trusted standards, for
example, is not easy to assure.
Take the global expectation that multiplying the rate of economic
expansion forever assures prosperity. Everything in
Mike Oliker wrote:
The Genius of James Madison was to see that a large country with many
factions would be freer from factionalism that a small country would be.
Seems to me what matters is the number of truly independent factions an
individual can be affiliated. A company like Nokia, for
MessageExactly. I've always thought numbers are just another of our perceptual
mechanisms (albeit an incredibly elegant one) that only captures part of the
magic that is actually out there. Interestingly, this maps well to the
rainbow idea that was on this thread: the colors are continous,
I'm usually a lurker here, rather than poster.
Glad to see Doug participating from afar.
I think we give all to easy lip service to complex subjects like
'democracy'; or 'sustainability'.
Democracy may be social ideal. The reality in varying degrees around
the world is the process of
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From Andy Carvin:
Hi everyone,
I've just received the terrible news that education
technology pioneer Seymour Papert has been gravely
injured in an accident in Hanoi. He was attending a
conference there and was hit by a motorbike,
sustaining significant head trauma.
The boston globe has a story
Historically it is ironic that the most democratic countries seem to be the
most homogenous and mono cultural, e.g. the Scandinavian countries. Perhaps,
as Jared Diamond concluded, the most important characteristic of a
successful society is its ability to choose, democratically or
Democracy is just an hypocrite and sophist instrument of capitalists but
we don't know something better. Not yet. I always vote, I respect Laws
and Constitution but only because society needs an order.
Alfredo
Mike Oliker wrote:
The Genius of James Madison was to see that a large country
Phil Henshaw wrote:
The fact that we consider what someone else has to say as meaningless
because we don't hear the meaning is a defect in our upbringing in one
way, that no one did for us the hard work of erasing our 'naive
reality' of assuming the world around us to be what it appears to
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