tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889026769761133073.post4181463833102639583..comments2023-12-22T08:42:36.132+00:00Comments on Gaian Economics: All in the MindMollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12845612174674783187noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889026769761133073.post-362470746262107612012-03-08T10:03:19.142+00:002012-03-08T10:03:19.142+00:00If people don't understand how democracy is &#...If people don't understand how democracy is 'perverted',then maybe they have no wish to know.How can it otherwise be explained?Especially since we have internet.Nearly forty years ago I read a book titled "The Rich and the Super-Rich".Since the sixties books analysing everything and all things have become widely available.But even now,one meets people who have strong feelings about the state of the nation,the world and humanity,politics,you name it,yet ask them what books they have read,and the fervour is already in remission.Next you start about people reading and thinking to find out how it works,so they become annoyed.Almost invariably it is to do with political leaning,if that is not too mild a word.The further Left you go,the more people have a certain conviction which they are unable to defend,other than by repeating what they have been told by their 'betters'.We just have to accept that people have free will only to the degree they are willing to reason freely.Of those who are willing to reason on the basis of facts,the majority,experience and the facts as observed teaches,will not follow their professed beliefs.They talk one way,but seek in practice to do the best for themselves for the moment.They live for short-term survival(In the long run we're all dead,anyway).Where there is a will,there is a way.Unfortunately,the majority of people wish to only learn the hard way;Which means,if they are able to keep postponing their learning,which the majority spends extraordinary time,effort and money doing(the postponing) with great tenacity,they end up learning the really,really hard way(Sounds familiar?).I have long come to the conclusion that the result of any given situation is entirely democratic.The result is the resultante of the total of the collective state of mind,attitude and action or lack of on the part of all involved.It was ever thus.(Jacob Jonker(.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com