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In our egalitarian democracy we have just about empowered a branch of the government, the FHA, to specify the size and shape of the typical American suburban master bedroom in which all Americans are thus created equal. |
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In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. |
Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice - a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has some |
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Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos |
Nationhood is more likely to guarantee autocracy, decadence and corruption than real democracy. |