¶ Democracy
Index Entry
Democracy:
“At the time of 1776 democracy worked very well for the U.S. when America was geographically isolated. But now, with 48-hour world-around travel, and one-minute world-around speech, the most powerfully spoken free speech is not always the voice of the people, it’s just the voice of the CIA or the KGB staging demonstrations in the cold war opponents’ countries where 100 people are made to look like 1,000. And all the sides are now using this psychological warfare while they are competing groups. Once communication can be seen as within a single planetary community undivided by individual sovereignties, then democracy can work perfectly again.”
¶ Citations
- RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC., rewrite of 10 Sep’75
