Joel Reicher in
Message-id: <rn3bz4hq2i.fsf@cindy.panacea.null.org> writes:
bretcahill@aol.com (BretCahill) writes:
The media hype elections like track and field events, the closer the
more
competitive. "It's a horse race!" they gush. "Every vote counts!" they
breathlessly repeat to brainwash the unwashed masses into believing they
are
part of a vibrant democracy.
The proper analogy is with competitions in other fields of ideas such
as
technology where the winner generally obliterates the opposition.
That obliteration happens in science,
I'll use science next time if you want. Darwin
obliterated the creationist fundies.
where there is a very hard
notion of `correctness', but it does not happen in technology. Look
how many different computer architectures there are out there.
There were a lot of different Jeffersonian
Democrats in 1800 but this doesn't change the
fact that computers in general obliterated the
typewriter.
Or that Jeffersonian Democrats *in general*
obliterated the Federalist Party.
.. . .
When a government is elected, its policies have yet to be proven.
IBM didn't think they'd be much more than a
niche market for computers when they were
first introduced.
The
people's opinion is not the ultimate test.
Then it ain't popular government. It's some
corp. scam trying to disable democracy.
"It's a horse race!"
.. . .
The electorate might have
justified difficulty deciding which set of policies are better, even
if the policies are very different (which doesn't seem to be
happening).
You would be satisfied if computers weren't
much different than typewriters?
Bret Cahill
All conservatism is based on censorship of
economic information.
-- Bret Cahill
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