If The People Are To Govern, Then The People Must Be Wise Options Rating

[Jon Awbrey]

Our Enlightenment Forerunners had the insight to see the critical flaw in all historical failures at democratic government, to wit, or not — If The People Rule, Then The People Must Be Wise.

The consequence is that equally distributed Education and Information are not just Commodities you buy so you and yours can get ahead of them and theirs — they are Essential to the intelligent functioning of government and the Public Interest. That is why we are supposed to have Universal Free Public Education. That is why we used to have a government operated postal service that enabled the free-flow of information at a nominal fee, not whatever price the market would bear.

Jon Awbrey

[Peter Damian]

What is the 'Peoples Will'? The average person is typified by comments on YouTube. I don't want to be subject to their Will.

The forces that press technology more to oppress than express the People's Will are dead set on keeping the static quo ...

Oh of course, 'False Consciousness'. See http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessay...noMassCult.html

Is that a typo in the first sentence, where it says 'Mess Culture'? Sounds very Awbr-e to m-e.

This post has been edited by Peter Damian: Mon 2nd May 2011, 11:06am

[Jon Awbrey]

What is the ‘Peoples Will”? The average person is typified by comments on YouTube. I don't want to be subject to their Will.

The forces that press technology more to oppress than express the People's Will are dead set on keeping the static quo ...

Oh of course, ‘False Consciousness”. See www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC20folder/AdornoMassCult.html

Is that a typo in the first sentence, where it says 'Mess Culture'? Sounds very Awbr-e to m-e.

That's a very good question. I was hoping someone would ask it.

It is evidently, like many of our most important values, an abstract concept that refers to an objective if somewhat elusive reality, like Arete, Beauty, Conscience, Constitution, Divinity, Evolution, Expectation, Fate, Golden Mean, Goodness, Happiness, Harmony, Higher Power, Invisible Hand, Justice, Knowledge, Liberty, Life, Love, Providence, Righteous Succession, Truth, Utility, Virtue, and Wisdom, to name just a few.

I suppose your average Wikipediot truly believes that the Wikipediot notion of Kitsch Krowd Kultur fits in here, and that suggestion is, like most Wikipediot notions, Komical in the X-treme.

Jon