Are we rational enough to maintain a healthy democracy?

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Mon Aug-31-09 10:53 AM
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Poll question: Are we rational enough to maintain a healthy democracy?

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Auggie

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Mon Aug-31-09 11:01 AM
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1. Selfishness is SOP these days

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HopeHoops

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Mon Aug-31-09 11:01 AM
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2. Other - the solution is obvious.

We should just wait for the space aliens to take over and let them run everything through anal probes.

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MannyGoldstein

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Mon Aug-31-09 11:02 AM
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3. We Have Grown Ignorant Over the Last 40 Years

Just like we did in the years leading up to the previous depression and world war.

If we survive the next few years, we'll have the possibility of regaining a collective clue.

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PDJane

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Mon Aug-31-09 11:15 AM
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4. If, but only if, the collective manages to eschew belief

for rational thinking. I don't believe that anyone could have predicted that, in the 21st century, the US would still be arguing over teaching creationism (or "intelligent design") in science classes. I would never have believed that we'd have to go back and fight for women's rights; equal pay, abortion, same sex marriage...all those battles we thought were won. It's the triumph of belief over knowledge, and it's a persistent theme. I would never have believed that education, especially of the higher sort, would have become such a rote thing, that the corporations would dictate every corner of life. It's frankly depressing.

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notesdev

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Mon Aug-31-09 11:25 AM
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5. You think this is a democracy?

Try "oligarchy"

You gotta have something to be able to maintain it. By all accounts ours was gone for good in 1913 once the bankers got control of our money supply and tax system, and it's been a steady dive ever since.

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