Should I start a thread for discussing what education and the military-industrial complex (New World Order) has to do with being like the Germany we defeated in world wars. — Athena
Where did you get your information about education? — Athena
Should I start a thread for discussing what education and the military-industrial complex (New World Order) has to do with being like the Germany we defeated in world wars. — Athena
goats be used, but don't deer live in the forest and don't we kill them? — Athena
Europeans ARE smarter and more educated than Americans. — DiegoT
Americans still have a better democratic regime than most European countries. — DiegoT
Elections are important, but isolated they are meaningless. And they are only a minimum: together with paying taxes, it´s the least a citizen can do to satisfy his duties to the regime. Democracy properly understood in societies with masses of hundreds of millions of citizens, it´s a system that tries to afford as many personal differences as it can without jeopardizing the system, and implements channels for those differences to communicate with the system and contribute updates that in its turn influence the internal and external behaviour of a society.
It is comparable with our living bodies, as our trillions of cells, bacteria, viruses all have their say in the analysis of the state of the whole and its behaviour. Of course, some cells matter more than others, and neurons or bacteria in the gut have a greater influence in our thoughts and emotions than red cells or bacteria on our skin (unless there´s an illness). A system where everybody has the same weight in decisions is not democracy, is an indiferentiated expanse of plankton. That is why elections and taxes must be the bottom level of common participation, but then there are other paths a citizen can use to participate more if s/he is committed more. — DiegoT
In these other paths, the United States is traditionally stronger than Western Europe; freedom of speech, economic enterprise, judicial system... — DiegoT
Is it? At least the US is more corrupt than many European countries.In these other paths, the United States is traditionally stronger than Western Europe; freedom of speech, economic enterprise, judicial system... — DiegoT
Kill daylight savings time. Or at least end it sooner and start it later.
8h — Bitter Crank
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