Atta (9): 242: Today's kick-ass question

[Daniel Harper]

I've gotta head to work in a sec, but in my darker moments I worry that this
concept we call liberal democracy is basically coming to an end. Right now
it's really only Western Europe and parts of North America that even pay lip
service to things like freedom of speech and the like, there's been a
gradual creep towards oppressive religion even in this country, and the
forces of good can't hold off the powers of totalitarianism forever.

I'd only be mildy suprised if we aren't living in a de facto theocracy
before my natural life has ended. And Western Europe isn't that far
behind....

On 5/17/07, Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>  Mike Bailey writes:
>
> > actually, don't you think it's really the coming thing, and that
> lopsided power relations are
> > gradually being phased out systemwide as unsatisfactory to all
> concerned?
>
> Umm.... no. I'm somewhat sanguine about reductions in "lopsidedness" on
> racial, sexual, and imperial lines -- but on a 50-to-500 year time scale, I
> don't see that nation-states, corporations, religions -- or political
> systems advancing claims akin to those of religions -- are in much danger
> of "being phased out."
>
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