(July 17, 2011 at 2:24 am)theVOID Wrote: Yeah that's a real concern, it's why I advocate individual sovereignty over pervasive democracy.
I do like the concept of individual sovereignty, but only as using it complimentary to what I see as necessary functions of the government. At the risk of sounding like a liberal parrot, I don't trust corporations not having a watchful government eye over them.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell