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		<title>Buying my way out of a democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.gustible.com/2009/10/02/buying-my-way-out-of-a-democracy</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JvN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I strongly believe that democracy is not the optimum way of choosing a government. No &#8211; I do not have a viable alternative, but the evidence suggests that there should be a better way of determining who is fit to govern. Consider the following &#8211; I pay a very large amount of tax every month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perspectives and ageism</title>
		<link>http://www.gustible.com/2009/02/12/perspectives-and-ageism</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JvN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since, I have imagined that I would live forever. One day the technology would arrive to let me go far far beyond three score and whatever. One day I would not be mortal, one day I will hold the universe in the palm of my virtual hand. I am now 41 years old. With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Value</title>
		<link>http://www.gustible.com/2008/09/24/value</link>
		<comments>http://www.gustible.com/2008/09/24/value#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JvN</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[September]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Value]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another perspective on the September 2008 financial crisis: we have been utterly swindled. Not for the first time.]]></description>
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		<title>Cordwainer Smith</title>
		<link>http://www.gustible.com/2008/08/31/cordwainer-smith</link>
		<comments>http://www.gustible.com/2008/08/31/cordwainer-smith#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JvN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why this website is called gustible. Some notes on Cordwainer Smith. A brief suggestion for alternative reading in the search of a replacement for democracy. All in a single post!]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa &#8211; I am ready to go now</title>
		<link>http://www.gustible.com/2008/08/13/south-africa-i-am-ready-to-go-now</link>
		<comments>http://www.gustible.com/2008/08/13/south-africa-i-am-ready-to-go-now#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JvN</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[emigration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[xenophobia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lindy and I were invited to dinner recently. We had a great evening &#8211; great food and company. But we broke one cardinal rule &#8230; we got distracted into discussing politics. Normally this would not be a problem. I expect, especially in the South African context, that discussing politics would be a fairly heated and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy &#8211; what I thought it meant</title>
		<link>http://www.gustible.com/2008/04/10/democracy-what-i-thought-it-meant</link>
		<comments>http://www.gustible.com/2008/04/10/democracy-what-i-thought-it-meant#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JvN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I was very young, I have always understood democracy to be &#8220;good&#8221; &#8211; and other forms of government to be &#8220;bad&#8221;, or &#8220;unfair&#8221;, or &#8220;pre-judiced&#8221; &#8211; this even though I grew up in the highly pre-judiced, unbalanced, and un-democratic world of Apartheid South Africa. So &#8211; democracy then: it seems as if though the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy qualified : Part One</title>
		<link>http://www.gustible.com/2007/12/19/democracy-qualified-part-one</link>
		<comments>http://www.gustible.com/2007/12/19/democracy-qualified-part-one#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JvN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder about democracy, about the will of the people. Today it is virtually sacrilege (at least in the West, and also in large parts of the East) to question the validity of democracy as a governmental system. (I should say &#8211; Democracy, capitalised). Democracy is built on the idea that every person who is [...]]]></description>
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