Re: Catchup voting results

>>Glen: As well, I am starting to believe that this
>>is our ultimate future, where the individual is unimportant and >>whose
>>sole purpose is to serve the collective as a whole.
>
>[...] in order for an operational democracy
>to function, the individuals must be allowed to pursue their own
>interests. If not, then an autocracy develops. This is what >happened in
>the 1930s when Hitler came to power. Folks bought into >his promises and
>joined the bandwagon.

Yes, but Germany never and still doesn't have a democracy, just like the
rest of the world who "buys in" to democractic voting for a leader to handle
the complicated things. What happens when the entire community itself is the
oppressive leader? What a strange concept that would be.

>John: Societies that go in this direction are defective, less >creative,
>less adaptive than those which stress both individuality >and community. I
>feel you are responding to the nightmare polarity >I spoke of above.
>
>Gerry: Exactly. And as I've repeatedly stated, both individual and
>community are what's important.

I guess it's possible to tread the fine line in the middle. This certainly
would be the ideal state of a good democracy but the cultural pendulum keeps
on swinging back and forth.

- gLeN
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