Pierre Echerie
Horseshoe Industries
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Posted - 2012.08.02 17:08:00 -
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Before you begin throwing some rotten fruit at my face, let me mention that I am one gallente citizen that spent too much time in Jita for his own good, plus I'm enjoying a rather violent mixture of rum and some other stuff at the moment of writing this.
Now, what I want to say is to clarify what relation exists between the words 'freedom', 'liberty' and 'democracy' in their current implied meaning, but that's my personal drunk opinion. Agree with me or not, it's your choice.
You see, a state is like a public toilet. You absolutely need one, unless you got your own, or are perfectly ok using something less elaborate. The quintessence of liberty would be walking into one and having a choice of ceramic, stone, plastic, golden and glass WC's with music/videos/silence/sexy poster/whatever else you so desire. Freedom, however, is your choice whether to use one at all. Obviously, you don't have a choice like that at times. You do get a choice which stool to use among those that are already installed there.
And delegated democracy means that you had once selected among several architects the one who will build that public toilet in a place of his choosing and equipped by his design. At best he gave you a speech about what it exactly was he planned to build. Mind you, if there are twenty customers, and fifteen of them chose the guy that offered marble seats, you're not getting a wooden one even if you ask for it.
So, make it so that you are prescribed a certain stool in there, or that you are given one based on your current wealth, you still don't get to make the choice of whether to use one at all, nor you can choose what to choose from (pardon the pun). I guess, in these terms, the Caldari weren't happy about how WE chose to build toilets for THEM. And we didn't like THEM for demanding wooden seats in the neighbourhood that favours marble.
So, our mistake is, we assume everyone to be perfectly happy with the idea that what is good for most, is good for everyone, and the system that favours most will undoubtedly prove it's merit to all within it. Maybe, if Caldari had a small voting on their own public toilet, they would get wooden seats and be happy with them, so to speak. But that would mean having a state within a state, something that doesn't sit well with ideas of being united through diversity; rather being divided by it.
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