On 12/12/2012 8:08 AM, Edgar Owen wrote:
Democracy is a huge failure, because it elects not the best qualified to solve real problems, but the best liars, bull shitters, and those most willing to prostitute themselves to their corporate and banker masters.
This is true, of course, but I suggest that we need only recognize that democracy inevitably evolves into socialism, then communism, as the less fortunate and/or industrious learn that they can vote themselves a 'share' of the rewards of /other/ people's industry. Hence, democracy is crypto-communism 'at the limit', therefore falsified as a viable economic system by the same criteria that condemn communism.
Thank you for the opportunity to sample modern American zen without leaving the mountain.
RAF
