Alain Badiou. Democracy, Politics and Philosophy 2006 1/5

I like the way he approaches a problem.

Right On the money Video!

"1-person 1-vote" is the problem. It is the same old political ideas with different people. People suffer more and more, corruption and embezzlement is on the rise and the gap between the minority rich and the majority poor keeps on widening. I think the democratic reform idea that says: "the more you earn, the less your vote counts and vice versa" is the best for now. It is called VOTE SIZING and I recommend everyone to find out about this.

at a first glance your idea of vote sizing seem pretty cool,...but if u give it a second thought,...the problem is that people who earn less (and who are probably less educated) tend to vote for the wrong politicians,....
i mean,..have you noticed that in critical times more dictators get elected,..?
what i'm saying is that besides how much u earn another criteria should be ur education,...phd in humanities get votex3 phd in economy get vote/2,...:) get the idea

Ok, VOTE SIZING. In that perspective, the problem of domination, that rules out the sphere of vote, remains, and so occurs the return of the repressed (repressed, of course, from thinking) inside your SIZING - precisely there, by the way. Don't you think so?

i've moved through many philosophies, from spinoza to neitzsche, heidegger, a bit of focault, and zizek. i must say alain badiou ranks up there..i would've loved to have been a part of this audience, genius

In direct translations of φιλíα one often places 'friendship' but we need to take care to remember that the word is far broader than our word 'friendship' and can include much else besides including the relationship between lovers, parents and children, business contacts, and war time companions.

σοφία here is easily translated as 'wisdom' but it can also be translated as 'knowledge' if we remember that the sort of knowledge indicated is of a higher sort than common knowledge.

Philosophy

Philo-sophy

φιλο-σοφία

That prefix 'philo-' which is from the Greek φιλíα (Philia) is the same greek word that becomes our suffix -phile as in pedophile, audiophile, bibliophile, etcetera. In that context we clearly understand the word to mean love (in at least some desirous sense of love).

It can mean love, but it also means to "aim" "long for" etc.

lol whos that loon at the beninnin ?? lol