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You and Pollyanna? I refer you to Gavin, Charles, Brennan et al. As for
your notions of democracy; your hierarchies are too simplistic. I
wouldn't want you covering my back in a scrap. CP
En Lin Wei wrote:
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> Carlo wrote:
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> >My post was 'perhaps', Wei, more geared to prompt some recognition on
> >your part of your Pollyannish views on democracy--Athenian and American.
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> What were Pollyanna's views on democracy? I could possibly determine the
> precise meaning of your statement if you could specify which aspect of my
> view clashes with yours.
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> Of course the main issue might be why Pound rejected democracy? Inevitably
> our personal views of such issues become enmeshed in the analysis. But am I
> to infer from your remarks that you despair of any possibility of democracy
> working; that you do not believe that the Athenian contribution to the
> development of representative government was consequential, and that America
> has nothing to learn from studying it?
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> I gather you are highly critical of American democracy in its current form
> (I certainly am, and we may share certain convictions on this point).
> Pound's solution was to reject the US system in favor of a LESS, rather than
> a MORE, democratic form? In what senses might you agree with Pound, and in
> what ways might you suggest that the problems facing the US system are
> remediable?
>
> Regards,
>
> Wei
>
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