From: Jeremy Bradley (jeremyb@nor.com.au)
Date: Tue 10 Dec 2002 - 23:28:44 GMT
Joe:
>Let me attempt to explain this in another way. There is always a gap
>between the intolerable and the unattainable ideal of the perfect; the
>perfect keeps changing, as novel opportunities result from technological
>advance, so the intolerable advances, too. If the actual situation falls to
>the intolerable, revolution results, but before this can happen, people
>vote to change things; thus, a democracy maintains itself between the
>intolerable and the perfect, in a perpetually evolving yet always
>tolerable spectrum.
Bingo, but where does that lead to, a decline in USAnia-bashing or an
improvement in its foreign policy?
Jeremy
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