Title: An insult to our Democracy Source:
You Tube URL Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywgUCdefSW8 Published:Oct 26, 2009 Author:Your Government Post Date:2009-10-26 10:36:25 by phantom patriot Keywords:None Views:161 Comments:13
I could see how democracy might do very well in a society of saints and sages led by an Alfred or an Antoninus Pius. Short of that, I was unable to see how it could come to anything but an ochlocracy of mass-men led by a sagacious knave. The collective capacity for bringing forth any other outcome seemed simply not there. To my eyes the incident of Aristides and the Athenian mass- man was perfectly exhibitory of democracy in practice. Socrates could not have got votes enough out of the Athenian mass-men to be worth counting, but Eubulus easily could, and did, wangle enough to keep himself in office as long as the corrupt fabric of the Athenian State held together. As against a Jesus, the historic choice of the mass-man goes regularly to some Barabbas. (Memoirs of a Superfluous Man)