From: Case (Case@iSpots.com)
Date: Sat Oct 22 2005 - 19:20:35 BST
> [Case]
> The constitution also gives the state and federal legislature the
> power to decide which public purposes public funds should be applied
> to. Yet you object. You can't be objecting to their right to do this
> since it is specified in the constitution. So what is your complaint?
[Platt]
I have no complaint about representative democracy. Never have, never will.
Doesn't mean I have to agree with every decision the majority makes, any
more than you do..
[Case]
I hear ya brother.
[Platt]
You hold private companies accountable by not buying their products.
Unlike the government, no private company can put gun to your head and say,
"Pay up or else." As for trusting government, I suggest you take a long hard
look at world history, especially what occurred during the 20th century in
Russia, German, Italy, Japan and China not to mention Cuba, Vietnam, and
Cambodia.
I decided years ago the Americans make crappy automobiles began a boycott.
It has not resulted in better quality at all. My boycott of tuna had about
the same impact. Consumers are not now and not ever going to be organized
enough to impose any sort of value on corporations. With regards to how
people in other countries govern themselves I think you too often judge
them on the basis of your own culture. Pirsig discusses this at length in
his tirades against anthropology. It is one of the few aspects of
anthropology that he does not dismiss. In fact when he talks about the
culture of one in Lila he is saying that we should not judge one system of
thought from inside another system of thought. Given his other lapses into
antropomorphism I find this striking.
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