The majority of nations on the planet are democratic. None of them are really democratic within the minutiae. Even so, countries continue saying that democracy is the best system out there...

But if democracy was the best system out there, wouldn't it be a global democracy instead of a collection of semi-democracies? Are the interests of the majority of the planet truly put forward, or instead are they lost within nation-states and then smothered at the global level?

If people shouting about democracy are so sure of it, perhaps they would dare to try it globally instead of conveniently.

I regret the sanity I have. It clashes with the insanity of the world.

You know that person that was just in front of you? Yeah. If you didn't see something nice in that person, someone else will. Yeah, but don't feel bad. Someone else will see something ugly in that person. The problem usually crops up when everyone agrees. They call it democracy.

Someone said that the second coming of Christ will happen. The odds are decreasing, though. Virgins are getting younger and younger these days.

When you have something, you have something to lose. When you are something, you don't.

Exasperation without pragmatic action is worse for your health than smoking unfiltered cigarettes while standing in a puddle of gasoline. On Tuesday. Most doctors wouldn't recommend either.

Worrying you can't do something is worse than finding out that you're right. Worrying about what someone else will do is also worse than finding out that you're right. Worry is just fear in unit time.

This is a first entry under 'scribbling'; it's where I'll start shoving incomplete (and sometimes unrelated)thoughts that I write on paper. They just haven't fleshed out into full entries yet.

Anarchy is the default state of democracy.

The only reason that we believe we are more enlightened than animals is because we have told ourselves that we are.

People don't buy art. They buy the stories that come with the art. This is why religious texts are full of stories. During periods of illiteracy, verbal stories are all that people had. And the love of these stories has resulted in bloodshed, charred flesh, eviscerations, beheadings and much more. Philosophy is so much more clean.

True democracy is socialism in disguise; if the masses are poor then the poor should have greater voice than the rich by virtue of democracy. That doesn't happen.

Chicken breasts aren't supposed to have bones in them. Those are ribs.

Code is not just Law, it is Intent.

We talk about the planet as if we're truly concerned, but it is really the survival of our species we're interested in. Maybe on the next planet we'll do better. { Read more }

I don't know exactly why, but political and economic camps remain just that - with little or no common ground. There is democracy, and there is communism. There is capitalism, and there is socialism. And, for reasons that defy explanation, they are often viewed as polar opposites.

Consider a democracy like the United States, which also is capitalist. The religion that is dominant in the United States is Christianity, which has the Sermon on the Mount as one of the teachings (in at least some versions of Christianity). So, 'the meek shall inherit the Earth'. Is that statement socialist or democratic? Both. And neither. Democracy gives power to the mob. So does socialism. Where it varies is in the 'how'. Capitalism, as we see it working, takes money away from the mob and gives it to the few. Socialism takes money away from the mob and takes care of the mob.

'All men are created equal'. Socialism? Maybe. Egalitarianism? Yes. Democracy? According to many nations, yes. Communism? Yes.

And yet, each political and economic ideology seems to have trouble coming to grips with all of this. Why? Perhaps because people are too busy defending their camps and attacking the other camps to actually try to find the common ground and move forward.

Random pointer: mobile vulgus is the origin of 'mob'; the movable common people.

The roots of economic and political ideologies all tie to a common factor - people. And each method has it's strengths and weaknesses in either theory or, more usually, practice.

Maybe the best thing to do would be to toss the labels to the wind and actually focus on what is most important to people- after all, that's what started this mess. A return to sanity would be refreshing; all too often I hear that one ism or acy is bad and another ism and acy is good. { Read more }