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I sense a weariness in the worrisome state(es) of affairs. Keep speaking out sooner or later the changes will be there in the setting sun, at dawn,perhaps. 

posted by merkie on August 9, 2008 at 10:18 AM | link to this | reply

Possible, yes; probable, NO!!

posted by EX_TURPI on July 31, 2008 at 6:51 AM | link to this | reply

That should be way of people's politics

posted by Kayzzaman on July 30, 2008 at 5:52 AM | link to this | reply

Like the ancient Greeks were supposed to have

but here is my worry - is everyone in a democracy equally committed to collective rationality? I come from the world's largest democracy - India - and it worries me that theoretically everyone has a vote when not everyone has the same level of detachment from their very immediate, personal needs and a focus on what the country requires - which is not to say that they will then agree on what to do, but at least then everyone is arguing for the common good. Individual rationality often leads to collective irrationality - if we can deal with that then there is a lot of good in a participative democracy.

posted by resurrectionman on July 30, 2008 at 3:22 AM | link to this | reply