Mr. EzStoned,
I would have thought Miller Light, but just for the record I do not
"disparage democracy as an ideal concept". On the contrary I feel about it
exactly like Ghandi felt about Western Civilization. When ask his opinion
about it he replied, "Oh that would be a wonderful idea."
But since you like Emerson try this one.
"Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet."
Or even better,
"The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the
gauntlet of the mobs."
I would suggest that a distinction be made between a democracy and a
plutocratic oligarchy.
-Moyer
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>From: Stoner James <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: O' ecstasy, my drug!
>Date: Fri, Jan 3, 2003, 9:13 AM
>
> Mr. Moyer,
>
> Funny! You have such a cynical sense of humor! It's all about marketing
> these days, whether we like it or not that's what we got. Hell you can
> create a need where there previously wasn't one, that's the ugly in
> Capitalism; but I suppose, if I have to look for the good in it, it is
> also its beauty, and it hurts for me to say that, but I'm trying to be
> fair-minded. I wonder all economic or political systems rely on
> marketing, but just call it something else. I'm not sure, though, the kids
> are so big on drugs as they were 20-30 years ago, or maybe it's a
> different drug: for me, the drug is literature; my ecstasy, maybe a Pound
> of this, or little Winters of that, and why not? Itís safe, but literature
> can, perhaps, be destructive, constructive, and transforming; a tool for
> self-and social change, as both Bernstein and Pound would have it (notice
> I switch the primacy of terms), and people can actually learn something
> along the way, but hopefully it's self-discerning. And democracy, 0'
> democracy, not so true a democracy in a world with such sharp class
> distinctions. O' why do you disparage democracy as an ideal concept?
>
> EzStoner
>
>
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