"At first, this Earth, a stage so gloomed with woe You almost sicken at the shifting of the scenes. And yet be patient. Our Playwright may show In some fifth act what this Wild Drama means." --- Jack London, The Iron Heel (Image: Artist: Qunud)
Fear became the ultimate tool of this government.
V for Vendetta
"[U]ntil the middle of the nineteenth century, democracy was commonly viewed as an obsolete and ancient political system that was both dangerous and unstable. [...] "For two millennia politicians and philosophers regarded democracy as an inferior form of politics" dominated by mob rule and class warfare (Hanson 1989, 70)." --- ‘Principles of Comparative Politics’, Clark, Golder and Golder.
Although we commonly associate elections with democracy, about half of the legislative and presidential elections that occurred in the world between 1946 and 2000 actually took place in dictatorships (M. Golder 2005, 106).
"Democracy used to be a bad word. Everybody who was anybody knew that democracy, in its original sense of rule by the people or government in accordance with the will of the bulk of the people would be a bad thing - fatal to individual freedom and to all graces of civilized living. That was the position taken by pretty nearly all men of intelligence from the earliest historical times down to about a hundred years ago." --- C.B. Macpherson (1966, 1), as quoted in 'Principles of Comparative Politics', Clark, Golder and Golder.
"It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some blood to suck. Capitalism used to be like an eagle, but now it's more like a vulture. It used to be strong enough to go and suck anybody's blood whether they were strong or not. But now it has become more cowardly, like the vulture, and it can only suck the blood of the helpless. As the nations of the world free themselves, the capitalism has less victims, less to suck, and it becomes weaker and weaker. It's only a matter of time in my opinion before it will collapse completely." --- Malcolm X
I say: Democracy, at best, renders the minority outnumbered but never 'wrong'. It provides no sound criteria for discerning what is 'right' from what is 'wrong'. (Image: Symphony of Stones (Armenia) by majnouna)
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Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
John Adams, second President of the United States
In reality, the representative of the masses does not actually represent the thinking of the masses, but he or she actually thinks on behalf of the masses. --- Moez Mobeen, Democracy Paradox
"... law is a subset or form of plan, "trust" is also embedded in all phases of interpretation." --- Walter Kendal III, What Makes Laws Law
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