(February 14, 2011 at 4:53 am)padraic Wrote:(February 14, 2011 at 1:13 am)DeistPaladin Wrote:(February 13, 2011 at 8:52 pm)padraic Wrote: The American cult of individualism bothers me.
This is what happens when you set up some colonies in another continent and then dump all your misfits, malcontents and religious nuts into it as a way of getting rid of them.
Pardon?
Australia was founded by convicts.To this day we have a healthy contempt of authority. However, our form of democracy emphasises equality rather than individualism.
I understand but reject Libertarianism as I do all ideologies.I think the premise of the desirability of a laissez fare economy is as flawed and romantic as Marxism in the unfounded assumptions it makes about human behaviour.
So how would you define our (Australian) form of democracy Pad?
Just curious..
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