Elections are not democracy, and they are certainly not freedom. Freedom is actually a pretty dumb concept. It's a bit like when advertisers claim that something is 'free'. Things appearing out of nowhere 'free' is not scientific. It violates the law of conservation of energy. Freedom is an imaginary ideal. you can get closer or further away, but you cannot achieve it as a singular goal. It is a quality that facilitates other goals. People seem to be under the assumption that Democracy is the same as Freedom. I think they might have been sold something imaginary by George Washington. Democracy was what the Ancient Greeks invented and we could probably come up with a better system that makes full use of the technology available. Instead of ticking in the box for either bush or gore, you could write an email about what you would like to see happen in government. The emails could then be statistically analysed by a large computer and people would have far more power than they currently do. But I don't think that Iraq would be crawling with American soldiers if we voted every week via email. Then again, I'm not sure that ruling by the Lowest common denominator is such a good idea.
Very extreme religion (such as the Catholics in the spanish inquisition) is usually violently opressive. Islam is just the same. Not all islamic women are forced to wear the sack and yashmak. I live in London and the edgware road is like the middle east. The cafe menus are in arabic etc. And the women dress pretty racy to be honest. Racier than most english women certainly. Islam is not the Taliban, just like the spanish inquisition is not Catholicism or Christianity. The Spanish inquisition sort of edited out the important christian quality of forgiveness.
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Elections are not democracy, and they are certainly not freedom. Freedom is actually a pretty dumb concept. It's a bit like when advertisers claim that something is 'free'. Things appearing out of nowhere 'free' is not scientific. It violates the law of conservation of energy. Freedom is an imaginary ideal. you can get closer or further away, but you cannot achieve it as a singular goal. It is a quality that facilitates other goals. People seem to be under the assumption that Democracy is the same as Freedom. I think they might have been sold something imaginary by George Washington. Democracy was what the Ancient Greeks invented and we could probably come up with a better system that makes full use of the technology available. Instead of ticking in the box for either bush or gore, you could write an email about what you would like to see happen in government. The emails could then be statistically analysed by a large computer and people would have far more power than they currently do. But I don't think that Iraq would be crawling with American soldiers if we voted every week via email. Then again, I'm not sure that ruling by the Lowest common denominator is such a good idea.
Very extreme religion (such as the Catholics in the spanish inquisition) is usually violently opressive. Islam is just the same. Not all islamic women are forced to wear the sack and yashmak. I live in London and the edgware road is like the middle east. The cafe menus are in arabic etc. And the women dress pretty racy to be honest. Racier than most english women certainly. Islam is not the Taliban, just like the spanish inquisition is not Catholicism or Christianity. The Spanish inquisition sort of edited out the important christian quality of forgiveness.
I would perhaps replace the word communist with the phrase opressive regime or military dictatorship.