Thomas:
This is a good little essay and touch's on some very important observations.
Victor wrote:
As I recall, this thread got started with a comment about many of the
voters
seeming to be neither intelligent nor well-informed.I'm sure from many of
his postings that Ed Weick did not mean this
At 04:45 PM 1/30/99 -0500, you wrote:
Victor Milne:
As I recall, this thread got started with a comment about many of the
voters
seeming to be neither intelligent nor well-informed. I'm sure from many of
his postings that Ed Weick did not mean this in an elitist sense.
No, I didn't mean it in
As I recall, this thread got started with a comment about many of the voters
seeming to be neither intelligent nor well-informed. I'm sure from many of
his postings that Ed Weick did not mean this in an elitist sense.
I don't think lack of intelligence is really the problem. I also do not
think
Victor Milne:
As I recall, this thread got started with a comment about many of the
voters
seeming to be neither intelligent nor well-informed. I'm sure from many of
his postings that Ed Weick did not mean this in an elitist sense.
No, I didn't mean it in an elitist sense. I meant it very
I pointed out (often), that there are fundamental conditions for
a proper working democracy, and these conditions did not
exist in our history so far.
Then the reasonable observer would conclude they never will.
What about universal literacy? What about
the technology to make information
Jay:
...
As it has turned out, modern evolutionary scientists have found that the
Founding Fathers were right: true democracy won?t work. Natural selection
and genetic development created a human tendency for dominance, submission,
hierarchy, and obedience, as opposed to equality and democracy.
Ed W.:
...
Somehow I'm not at all surprised that this is your point of view. But then
how is merit to be determined? Testing and experience, you say, but who
will assess this? Surely an intelligent and informed public should have
something to do with it. But, I suppose you would then argue
- Original Message -
From: Eva Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Natural selection and genetic development works in a
much larger time scale than social depelopment that
may change human hierarchical, obedient etc behaviour
in less than a generation and such socially
conditioned behaviour forms
