Gustible - under the rubric of [$_SELF]

I strongly believe that democracy is not the optimum way of choosing a government. No – 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.

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Another perspective on the September 2008 financial crisis: we have been utterly swindled. Not for the first time.

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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!

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Since I was very young, I have always understood democracy to be “good” – and other forms of government to be “bad”, or “unfair”, or “pre-judiced” – this even though I grew up in the highly pre-judiced, unbalanced, and un-democratic world of Apartheid South Africa. So – democracy then: it seems as if though the [...]

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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 – Democracy, capitalised). Democracy is built on the idea that every person who is [...]

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