Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Amendments Message-ID: <1991Apr29.001738.1233@alphalpha.com> Date: 29 Apr 91 00:17:38 GMT References: <4364.2816d635@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> <1991Apr26.141044.7544@alphalpha.com> <1991Apr28.061119.18402@eecs.nwu.edu> Organization: none Lines: 19 In article <1991Apr28.061119.18402@eecs.nwu.edu> ptownson@eecs.nwu.edu (Patrick A. Townson) writes: >I wish you would recall that it is supposed to be 'we the people' who >do the governing, make the laws and decide how things are done ... why >aren't we allowed to do it any longer? Well actually, "we" never were. But my main fear is simply that the majority of us are far too uneducated and short-sighted. That's an incredibly elitist view of course, and I'm torn. I'd like to see a real democracy, but I don't think that democracy without education can work. But maybe I'm wrong. -- Alfalfa Software, Inc. | Poste: The EMail for Unix nazgul@alfalfa.com | Send Anything... Anywhere 617/646-7703 (voice/fax) | info@alfalfa.com I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.