Comments on: The Hidden Golan (UPDATED AGAIN)

By: sasa

sasa — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:42:00 +0000

Norman,

I can't answer that! Good question. Anyone else got any ideas?

S.

By: norman

norman — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:56:00 +0000

sasa,
What is the deffrence between a democracy and a republic .?.

By: sasa

sasa — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:48:00 +0000

Yes, I understand Yaman.

Actually, it is interesting how far democracy is from the people. It really is one day of democracy every five years. In our lifetimes, we get less than 20 democratic days, but that reckoning.

Gaddafy's Jumahiriyah was an interesting concept - the idea being that society is made up of a pyramid of committees, with everyone able to participate in day to day decision making if they want.

Democracy is a daily thing, with every participant making decisions relevant to their lives, and having an impact on things higher up the chain.

Of course, it didn't work in practise. But direct democracy always gets rationalised down into representative democracy.

In my opinion, representative democracy is no democracy. It shares more in common with dictatorship than it does with direct democracy. At least in a dictatorship, we know what we are fighting against.

By: yaman

yaman — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:35:00 +0000

Thanks for the link sasa. Actually that post also came to my mind when I read yours =) I guess in some respect I share his criticism of democracy as we know it–but I think his attempt to say that a dictatorship must react more quickly, while interesting to think about, is so ridiculous at face value. In any case, my post was not a call for dictatorship. It was a call for more democracy.