What is your IQ?

Are there any standard gullibility tests? That would be interesting, especially in the U.S. during the election season.

I suppose we could argue that the elections are a gullibility test.

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fuck. i got 92.

 

Ugh, yeah, just tally up the number of people who vote. There's your gullibility factor.

 

you vote, rat?

 

No. I don't and I won't.

 

ethical evil in the first place, or lack of choice?

 

Hmmm... I think the two are pretty much interchangeable.

 

i'd have to put some thought into that.

 

You can do it put your back in to it!

 

ok. but I'm drunk so it doesn't count.

no they aren't interchangeable. democracy as an ethical evil in itself ----- tyranny of majority. democracy producing little or no choice ---------- tyranny of affect.
two distince ethical evils.

 

That's splitting hairs if I've ever seen it done.

 

Ah, but at least you're not drunk enough to not know that indeed democracy is tyranny of the majority. It is indeed mob rule, which is what democracy translates to in English.

After clarifying what you meant, I would say both.

Democracy is really like a pacifier for the public to suck on, where they believe they can affect change by going to vote for establishment candidates who are hand-selected well in advance. That is the illusion of democracy, but I don't even think we really have democracy in the sense of "majority rule" in an age of rigged elections. Also, when you consider that the majority of the people are against the war, yet an evil person like Cheney, when asked about this, can only say "who cares?"

 

If that's the case, Rat, then I've got to ask what other form of government you'd prefer.

 

after a couple years at university I figure that's how we do.

 

Oh yeah. That'll give you some ivory tower cred, for sure.

In the street, the opposite: everything should be doubtless.

 

I cannot think of any form of government that I would prefer. I also believe that the most free people on Earth are the indigenous tribes of South America. The idea of government bothers me when you consider what the word actually means. So in a way I am sort of an anarchist, though I don't call myself that. Nor do I embrace anarchism as it is promoted today and has been in the past by all sorts of dubious groups and people. That's why I don't really offer "solutions," which bothers some people. It's not up to me or any other one person to say how the world should be. All I can do is point out what's wrong. If and only if enough people wake up to what's going on can something be done collectively.

 

You should really read Max Stirner.

Edit: No. You won't like 'em actually. DAMN!

 

The all action no theory approach. That's what gets old men stuck on telephone poles.

 

The opposite might be true too, Waking.

 

telephone poles stuck on old men?