Re: Mind's Eye A Call To Democratic Arms?

I am all for the small d -- the problem with the small d is the
spin doctors and their deep wallets spreading cash and government
officials both elected and hired that is willing lap up the bribes in
all their forms.. until the grease ends well what can be said..
but the perks are not bribes even though they are.
Allan

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 4:16 PM, archytas <nwterry@gmail.com> wrote:
> The human world is in a mess. It's hard to express what is going on.
> My guess is we are being ruled by a small, unelected, hidden politburo
> we could call banksters. I take this as metaphor, much as I would the
> notion the rulers are alien lizards. I also guess they have skewed
> any dialogue we have to make it very difficult to identify the real
> problem we face through argument. This is more or less a 'Dr Who'
> predicament, though I suspect it is the real one we face.
>
> Those of us who are democrats (small d) know the answer. We want a
> human world at peace and our institutions based on real democracy with
> government as unobtrusive as possible in the lives of reasonable
> individuals. This, sadly, is the easy bit. Even something as easy as
> this is potentially totalising and fascist.
>
> Much, of course, has been written on this, and my conclusion is this
> can't be helping much. My own country, Britain, has made some kind of
> decision to give up empire, but we clearly cling to the coat-tails of
> the USA through the dupes or war criminals we elect - or who know a
> secret case not made to us that justifies war and other rotten
> policies. If I was capable of listing all the literature I've read on
> this matter I wouldn't finish until sometime after a week tomorrow and
> I'm by no means a specialist. Even if the democratic parts of this
> literature is right, it doesn't convince me of any course of action,
> as almost none of it explains how we might lay down the arms of the US
> umbrella without giving up to something worse or simply as bad run by
> people less favourable to my ethnicity.
>
> My belief is we must change what dialogue and argument are to address
> a move to real, global democracy. We have new technology that would
> allow this, but currently it is being subsumed into the skewed form
> that has allowed domination through the ages. It could be that this
> technology would tell us we need the American Empire. I rather hope
> it would rather be a call to democratic arms and very substantial
> changes in what we do and can be. Any suggestions as to what this
> technology is or would be?
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