tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729562980132720815.post3838999298901029975..comments2024-03-22T02:27:30.009-05:00Comments on Royal World: 1908 versus 2016Theodore Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16242452485576182841noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729562980132720815.post-67153714025548791422016-11-04T01:02:30.369-05:002016-11-04T01:02:30.369-05:00@Theodore Harvey:
Ah, I wondered about that speci...@Theodore Harvey:<br /><br />Ah, I wondered about that specifically, about medicine having improved. Thank you for clearing that up.<br /><br />Ah, yes, I understand now. I agree with you on both counts.<br /><br /><br /><br />It would seem to me that a real democracy says "I would be happy with any of the candidates running but I think this one's the best, so I'm voting for this one and I recommend the same course of action to other voters."<br /><br />Ours says "There is only one correct moral choice and it's our candidate--and if he loses, the candidate likely to beat him is going to bring the whole country to ruin." How is that a "choice"? I don't see any more choice with that than with only one candidate running--other than that that one candidate is guaranteed to win--and not that I'd want to live in that society, but at least that would be a more unified society than the one we have.<br /><br />How do you be patriotic anyway, with political parties acting like religious cults or heresies and dividing the nation?Michael E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03388855678756001137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729562980132720815.post-38039354850635473602016-11-04T00:46:31.275-05:002016-11-04T00:46:31.275-05:00I mean that there are many material aspects in whi...I mean that there are many material aspects in which life is more comfortable now than in 1908: for example, medicine has improved and people can be cured of injuries or illnesses that would have killed them in 1908.<br /><br />Demographically was a reference to what is currently happening in Europe and to a lesser extent the rest of the Western world, with immigration filling the vacuum created by low birth rates.Theodore Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16242452485576182841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729562980132720815.post-65236206722942507402016-11-03T21:02:41.725-05:002016-11-03T21:02:41.725-05:00We deplorables, we happy few, we band of brothers....We deplorables, we happy few, we band of brothers...Ponocrateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14768418263263048150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729562980132720815.post-69253867437260033262016-11-03T17:57:02.275-05:002016-11-03T17:57:02.275-05:00Please forgive the ignorance (maybe my Asperger...Please forgive the ignorance (maybe my Asperger's has something to do with it), but....<br /><br />When you say "materialist", what specifically do you mean--especially when you say it is not unimportant?<br /><br /><br /><br />(I'm also unclear on what you mean by demographically....)Michael E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03388855678756001137noreply@blogger.com