Gustave Flaubert said, "The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois." So, are we there yet?
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Lolls. Not yet. But it won't be long.
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The whole problem with democracy is that it requires an educated, intelligent, balanced populace to work. Education takes resources: something we in America seem increasingly reluctant to pay for. Intelligence takes critical thinking, something we don't value much or even disregard as threatening to our religious beliefs. Balance requires tolerating and even entertaining multiple perspectives, which again threatens our religiosity, if not our actual beliefs. The real dream of democracy is to have a population deserving of a decent government. So no, I don't think we're there yet... and I'm concerned we may be moving in the wrong direction on average.
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We are still worshipping at the feet, I am afraid.
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What else would you expect the author of Madame Bovary to say? Something profound? Hardly. :) He wrote about an extremely ordinary flighty woman who fancied herself quite special and wasn't. :)
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As Voltaire said: To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. Are we getting close to being well mannered yet?
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Pretty much there. And the intellectuals and leadership has lowered to the ignorance of the proletarian.
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Who the F**K is Gustave Flaubert? Well, Bu$h got reelected didn't he?
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