THROWING CIVILIZATION DOWN DYSGNEIC STAIRCASES One of the unfortunate byproducts

THROWING CIVILIZATION DOWN DYSGNEIC STAIRCASES

One of the unfortunate byproducts of developing a significant knowledge of the failures of representative democracy – particularly American first-past-the-post, two-party representative democracy – is that you no longer question whether the whole process is despicable just because you disagree with it. Its just despicable period – agree with outcomes or not.

We are throwing our civilization down the stairs of cultural Mayan pyramids in sacrifice to an even more ridiculous belief than the appeasement of the gods by human sacrifice.

At least murdering criminals and captured enemies for entertainment purposes is doing some good in the world. But democracy is just the opposite: it’s reversing five thousand years of genetic pacification.

The enlightenment was as devastating to politics and philosophy as it was enabling for science and technology.