From: YP Fun (ypprotection@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed May 15 2002 - 09:51:41 MDT
--- KPJ <kpj@sics.se> wrote:
> KPJ <kpj@sics.se> quoted Philip K. Dick:
> |But then again faith in an idea can change the
> |world...
> |eg communism, democracy... etc...
>
> E.g. "communism": the idea that no humans should
> have power over others by
> owning resources. This translates into a system
> where "nobody" or "everybody"
> owns everything, but that is still just words. It
> really translates into a
> system where a group (``the government'', ``the
> people'', ...) actually owns
> everything, and who only allows those who they like
> to use the property. Thus,
> the "communistic states" meant 'states where the
> <bosses> owns everything'.
>
> E.g. "democracy": the idea that `the people' should
> be in power. Unfortunately,
> the words `the people' are just words. So it
> translates into the system where
> some part of the population votes in others into
> power for some specific time
> after which the process is repeated. So "democracy"
> becomes "parlamentarism",
> meaning `the people' is allowed to vote somebody
> into power to govern them.
True.
>
> In human history, any nice sounding idea has been
> misused into a power trip
absolute power corrupts absolutely... although i will
take ideals over apathy any day!!
People try... that is what counts. Democracy isn't so
bad and ideas are what you make of it... The
combination of democracy with capitalism efficiently
makes use of the inherit selfish nature of human
beings. If you wanna change the world ;) , you
have to be working all the time.
Me likes living in Canada!!!
I think it be paradise on earth, accept for the water
problem we had last year.
YP
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