Day Brown wrote:
> There is the question of pay now, or pay later. Machiavelli preferred
> monarchy because, like a family business, the leader****p gave more
> consideration to the later generations that'd inherit the business.
Yes, but not to the people. They cared about their own children, not
children of others in the country or anywhere else.
> The m***** only give lip service to this, as we see with the looming
> social security unfunded liability problem. Democracy tends to evolve
> into an extended pyramid scheme.
Sometimes democracies become idiocracies. That's not true of all
democracies - we are not seeing the same thing happen in European
Union, and we did not see the same in America under Clinton or
Theodore Roosevelt or Lincoln or a few others. I do not see this as a
feature of the political system, but rather of people's values. There
is a strong anti-intellectual influence in America. I am not sure why
it is so prevalent now, but I date it back to Voltaire. A society of
people "tending to their own garden" creates a society of ignorant
people who know nothing except their back yard.
> Hitler did a buncha nasty ****, like exterminating and sterilizing those
> they viewed unfit. They were not very good at deciding. Nevertheless, it
> took remarkable fitness and smarts to survive WWII, and as a result, the
> German population is more fit, just as Hitler hoped.
It took more remarkable fitness and smarts to survive WWII if one were
not in Germany, but in a country invaded by Germany. Russians were
caught between Stalin, who was exterminating anyone he saw as a threat
(anyone who was especially smart or fit, that is) and fighting the
war, which required everyone else to become both fit and smart. So
that was two conflicting influences, and I think they may have
canceled out each other.
> I see some growing awareness among women, that if what they want is more
> competent caretakers and case managers for the next generation, the more
> competent women will have to bear them, and cut back on the birthrates
> for the client cl*****.
>
> Fundamentalist clerics do not regard that as an improvement.
As if they were ever right about anything.
As someone else said,
"Fundamentalism:
Fund = give money to; amentalism = brainlessness."
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