What an Idea can become

[Grim_Grom]

Originally Posted by PoPpAScience

I could not agree more Grim_Grom. That is why it is so important to contemplate and discuss new ideas for our society that will influence it to the "Good" side of nature. I personally believe that Democracy was a great step forward out of dictatorships. But a step up is what it is meant for. I feel very strongly that we today have every right to create a new step up for our society and leave Democracy for those societies recovering from Dictatorships. It aways amazes me that people think that Democracy is the end of social evolution. And even worse is the movement under way to step back from Democracy into Socialism, or better know as communism/democracy. Where are the forefathers of the next step in human social evolution?

Well where can we go from here? It is assumed that the system we have now is the best we can have. Well that is to say, if we were to perfect the democratic system so that theoretical ideas it was based on became reality. However, the democratic system is unworkable in todays' larger societies. It cannot be that everyman can have his ideas and opinions have effect on the world, which is surely democracy's ultimate aim.

I would propose that the next logical step for society, is total individual liberty, where every person can have their own ideas and values in which to craft an environment for themselves. However this would too be, if implemented, totally unworkable in the current western societal systems. So once again we perhaps need reform or indeed revolution, to reach the next stage of social evolution, but whether an evolution of this sort would be "correct" is another matter.

[Candide]

hmm, so you propose a libertarian government. While sounding very attractive, I can't say that it lends itself to societies such as the United States and China. The sad truth of the matter is that humans need government. It helps them follow a path upon which society forms its rules. However, that plan could work in sparsely populated areas, such as parts of africa where there are only tribes and clans.

[vajrasattva]

The evolution of ideas depends greatly on personal interpretation of the idea itself, and as such, the idea it self can become great as well as perverted. i.e. what marks' idea of communism was and the communism we see today.