On May 8, 1:22=A0am, Immortalist <reanimater_2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 7, 7:56=A0pm, Bret Cahill <BretCah...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > It is hard to explain the place filled by political concerns in the
> > life of an American. =A0To take a hand in the government of society
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> > to talk about it is his most im****tant business and, so to say, the
> > only pleasure he knows. =A0That is obvious even in the most trivial
> > habits of his life; even the women often go to public meetings and
> > forget household cares while they listen to political speeches. =A0For
> > them clubs to some extent take the place of theaters. =A0An American
> > does not know how to converse, but he argues; =A0he does not talk, but
> > expatiates. =A0He always speaks to you as if addressing a meeting, and
> > if he happens to get excited, he will say "Gentleman" when addressing
> > an audience of one.
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> > The inhabitant in some countries shows a sort of repugnance in
> > accepting the political rights granted to him by the law; it strikes
> > him as a waste of time to spend it on communal interests, and he
> > likes
> > to shut himself up in a narrow egoism, of which four ditches with
> > hedges on top define the precise limits.
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> > But if an American should be reduced to occupying himself with his
> > own
> > affairs, at that moment half his existence would be snatched from
> > him;
> > he would feel it as a vast void in his life and would become
> > incredibly unhappy.
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> > I am convinced that if despotism ever came to be established in the
> > United States it would find it even more difficult to overcome the
> > habits that have sprung from freedom than to conquer the love of
> > freedom itself.
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> > -- Alexis DeTocqueville "The Advantages of Democratic Government"
> > _Democracy In America_ (1833)
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> Isn't the cor****ate world of influences really a "distributed
> despotism" where we might be free to choose but it is like a multiple
> choice question where many of the answers don't cover many of the
> possibilities?
The cor****ate world is such an idiotic Machiavellian mythical
economic
anachronism (largely created by idiots in the media for their own
internal
advertizing purposes) it's really why the more intelligent
specimens
of humanity developed internet, laserdisks, microcomputers, blogs,
satellites,
GPS, robots, and cruise missiles for the cor****ate idiots.
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