Democracy: mob rule?

see whole documentary http://goldenruledocumentary.blogspot.com/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• investment
• theory
• of
• politics
• party
• competition
• chomsky
• thomas
• ferguson
• michael
• albert
• democracy
• tyranny
• majority
• herd

[PersianPaladin]

I had to watch this video twice before I understood some of the more subtle aspects. It does make you think.

[darthrevan6]

wow, that shit is great! :D

[UrbyKris]

If it's human nature you shouldn't have to inforce it <.<

[AndroidPolitician]

@qwertypoiu4321

Maybe if think that people are inherently stupid and corrupt then yes democracy would always lead to "mob rule". 

[qwertypoiu4321]

Democracy (Merriam): 1a. government by the people; especially: rule of the majority.

Mob (Merriam): 1. a large or disorderly crowd; especially: one bent on riotous or destructive action.

Rule (Merriam): 1a. a prescribed guide for conduct or action.

'Democracy'=coercive Mob Rule Statism.

[qwertypoiu4321]

Song?

[agapeiron]

When conservatives speak of "mob rule" they are reiterating the mentality of the reactionary aristocracy of 18th and 19th century societies.

It is the fantasy of rich, misanthropic right wingers that any form of participatory democracy is "mob rule."

They deserve their own fantasy: let them face a screaming, irrational mob. Let them be derided by hooting peasants with pitchforks, their estates turned into anarchist collectives. At least they'll get SOME fulfillment out of social revolution.

[jeebiskebowski]

What exactly is a minority right? If rights exist, then they are absolute to all. There are no gay rights, there are not minority rights, there are no majority rights, there are rights, or there are no rights.

[QuatFax]

@NoWayFolding Excuse me. I said "certainly you can't deny that lack of crop rotation is a very small factor, and it did cause a global catastrophe." I meant to say "certainly you can't deny that lack of crop rotation is a very small factor, and it did cause an enormous catastrophe" Obviously, I accept that the Dust Bowl wasn't global, though it still demonstrates that the environment is extremely fragile.

[QuatFax]

@NoWayFolding "The environment is a complex system, so complex and so old that I think saying it is fragile is like saying the internet is fragile.Its not"

That's fallacious. The more complex a system is, the easier it is for tiny changes to throw things off. Typically, being more complex means having more factors that are interdependent. But if a system has lots of interdependent factors, throwing off one factor will compromise all the others. Thus making it a fragile system.

[QuatFax]

@NoWayFolding But certainly you can't deny that lack of crop rotation is a very small factor, and it did cause a global catastrophe.

Severe drought did contribute to the Dust Bowl. But the point is that the drought wouldn't have caused anything like that kind of catastrophe if not for very tiny changes in farming practices. Plenty of areas get severe drought without being turned into deserts.

I never said this was a global example.