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Re: Democracy - how to achieve it?
Posted:
Dec 17, 2012 12:31 PM
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Can your teaching exceed that which is already occurred in the US
over the last couple decades?
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10tbl01.xls
This in correlation with steadily increasing "right to carry" laws
around the country. John Lott implies causation; I only imply
"Damned if I know".
Wayne
At 10:52 PM 12/16/2012, GS Chandy wrote:
>Domenico Rosa posted Dec 17, 2012 5:03 AM:
> >
> > GS Chandy, Are you familiar with the Iron Law of
> > Oligarchy?
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy
> >
>I am. It happens to be more a 'wooden rule' than it is an 'iron
>rule' (though it surely is not cotton wool). Some day, I may write
>up some thoughts about 'iron rules' Vs, 'wooden rules' (and how one
>may distinguish between the two).
>
>And the rule (whether iron or wooden) does not detract from my
>arguments at all, as you'd realize if you took the trouble to work
>out on any real issues using the processes I recommend. The
>processes I recommend demand some (very little) learning and some (a
>fair amount of) 'unlearning'. The learning and unlearning have to
>be carried out in tandem. Most of us who have 'mastered' the
>conventional ways of looking at things find the needed unlearning
>rather difficult to do.
>
>GSC
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