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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
--Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1928
They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and the Constitution, and drink at it there with reverence and humility; but they who behold where it comes trickling into this lake or that pool, gird up their loins once more, and continue their pilgrimage toward its fountain-head.
--Henry David Thoreau, Concord Lyceum lecture, 1848
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Forgive me if I sound like a broken record...
"Democratic self-government does not work, according to Plato, because ordinary people have not learned how to run the ship of state. They are not familiar enough with such things as economics, military strategy, conditions in other countries, or the confusing intricacies of law and ethics. They are also not inclined to acquire such knowledge. The effort and self-discipline required for serious study is not something most people enjoy. In their ignorance they tend to vote for politicians who beguile them with appearances and nebulous talk, and they inevitably find themselves at the mercy of administrations and conditions over which they have no control because they do not understand what is happening around them. They are guided by unreliable emotions more than by careful analysis, and they are lured into adventurous wars and victimized by costly defeats that could have been entirely avoided."
- Frostburg State University, Plato's Democracy
jrflipjr
Forgive me if I sound like a broken record...
"Democratic self-government does not work, according to Plato, because ordinary people have not learned how to run the ship of state. They are not familiar enough with such things as economics, military strategy, conditions in other countries, or the confusing intricacies of law and ethics. They are also not inclined to acquire such knowledge. The effort and self-discipline required for serious study is not something most people enjoy. In their ignorance they tend to vote for politicians who beguile them with appearances and nebulous talk, and they inevitably find themselves at the mercy of administrations and conditions over which they have no control because they do not understand what is happening around them. They are guided by unreliable emotions more than by careful analysis, and they are lured into adventurous wars and victimized by costly defeats that could have been entirely avoided."
- Frostburg State University, Plato's Democracy
truthofnitrous
reply to post by TritonTaranis
I'm not talking about globalization in general. Look maybe i should of used a different term other than globalist. Maybe i should've used a term like plutocrats or power brokers, or the "too big to fail". In all honesty i'm all for globalization... IF it's DONE PROPERLY. But it's not done properly, globalization is just simply being used as a tool as a way to consolidate power on a global scale by these lets say "plutocrats".
truthofnitrous
What do we do after we beat the globalists?