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Some evolution for democracy

March 31st 2009 07:28
Hey all,

To give some simple examples for starters:

. you want to change your car. Would you ask your kid about advise?
. you want to cook a meal for your girl. Will you ask your rugbymen friends on what should you do?
. you're choosing a place to live in Australia. Would you ask the advise of a Frenchmen?

Please, don't try to distort the thing. I know that we can allways find a kid that dominates the unbelievable things that cars can do today; there's allways a rugbymen that know how to cook; there are some Frenchmen in Australia.

The idea behind is: when you have to take decisions on some matters, you ask the experts. Even if your kid is going to ride the car you're going to buy, he's not to take a part of the decision, or at least your going to make a ponderation on his opinions.


The same goes for the hole society. Today we elect people who sometimes is completely incapable of taking decisions in some matters, and worst, they don't even want to learn. Democracy is a good step towards a equalitarian society, but now we should start checking the problems on it.

As Nietzsche used to say, democracy is the magnification of mediocraty. In the way we're organised today, we have to admit, it's true.

So after some good discussions with my girlfriend, I got to a set of rules that should make our society rule better:

- define a "recours aux experts" following some rules to avoid oligarchies to dominate:
. the ensemble who is considered expert is the most educated 1/X of the population in a specific matter
. there are Y different domains of expertise, and a member of population cannot be a part of more of Y/Z domains of expertise.

- Harmonise the access to education (it means that if there is something that the state must be responsible of is education) so that there is no discrepancies in the meritology. Today it is easy for rich kids to talk about merit, they went to study in the best schools, so there is no competition for them..if you want to have an equal society with "recours aux experts", this is a major point.


X, Y and Z are integers that have to be less than 10:
- X have to be less than 10 to avoid that too small groups dominate society.
- Y to avoid complexity of the organisation
- Z to avoid that one person be part of all decisions, but that some people have more domains of expertise than others.

I'll try to discuss more about it later; have to go to work!

cheers.
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a nice way to simplify the explanation of the humans goal on earth.

"Take 3 things out of your pocket and i'll explain your objectives in life:

- credit card or similar
- keys of your car
- cellphone

and when i see this, i see what humans are doing on earth: they are trying to be god. What you just showed me is your best try in terms of omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience, which are the 3 characteristics of God (at least the catholics one)."

Please notice that i do not have a contradicting position with the existentialist (actually the Kierkegard's) thinking in terms of the absurdity of our existence, but still, we all have a defined goal in our lifes, even if we think we don't have.

I'm not saying either that we can't change this goal, like when you have children or any kind of idol you would die for (nation, religion, etc). But the standard operating procedure for men is to try to be as powerfull as god. I would say that children is some kind of essay for imortality in most cases, which falls as omniprecense. Idols were all broken down by Nietzsche's hammer, even if we still live following them in every place exept from Europe. (people should read Nietzsche in universitites in US and arabic countries, so that we stop killing ourselves)

take care, dont drive too fast, youre still human.

cheers.
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A great historical fact we're seeing these days, where Hegel's dialectic is being applyed to the American system. As The Economist tries to explain why they agree with state's intervention as an "expetion" to save free economy (it means, save men from themselves) we see the state as some not human, as some kind of external entity that we don't understand.

I don't know where they got their notion of state, but it seems to be the same interpretation that americans have. The state is somthing that imposes you taxes and block development


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Welcome to 1984

August 27th 2008 07:22
6 months ago the US/EU were defending Kosovos independence, while russians were claiming it was against i dont know which international law. Now its the exact oposite for Ossetia.
Do you still think their real reasons are based on "international rights"?
They must think were all stupid. For my side i think theyre clowns


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More on causality

July 22nd 2008 11:18
Well, i didn't have much time to read philosophy these last months, so i had no new subject to talk about in the blog... since i don't like posting bullshit just to fill up some pages, there were no new posts these last months. Well, after some days off at work, i have time to think about some new ideas.

These post comes from the 4th "cartesian meditation" from the book from Husserl, "Meditations cartesiennes


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Some overvaluation of language

April 16th 2008 17:28
hey all,

i'm quite tired of the way philosophy deals with language. So, a little post to complain


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Death at intervals

April 14th 2008 14:22
(inspired by the book of Jose Saramago)

And so the death went on a strike, so to use the normal words we employ today. But still, we keep on getting older. So, even if you don't die anymore, your body still gets weaker and weaker as time is still working


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Following the last post a friend of mine asked for a little explanation on the Heidegger's concept of Dasein, which is mostly the same as Husserl's "transcendental ego".

Normally people tend to think it's a tuff thing to explain, but i bet this example will help us out. Remember Newton and the story of the apple falling in his head? I bet you can't understand now why am i coming with this one, but think again


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Kick a stone

March 23rd 2008 18:43
There is a philosophical problem that have never been completely solved since Descartes, which many good men couldn't get to no final answer neither.

Its the impossibility for us to proove that the world around us really exists. To be clear and go straigh to the matter (i'm not here to tell stories), the last idea that came around to solve the matter was Husserl's "transcendental ego" and Heidegger's "Dasein", which are almost the same. They avoided studying men alone, instead they studied the men inmerged in "real", so that this problem no longer exists


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On cultural resistance

March 19th 2008 18:37
Well, some comments on the subject.

I consider cultural resistance all those events or cultural work made to avoid that some kind of rite that was common in a certain community become history


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