Re: Fall of Rome, fall of liberal democracy?

> > GOD BLESS AMERICA
> > It's just a handful of questions.
> >
> > 1. Why are jobs boring, inefficient and saturated in twisted office
> > psychology and politics,
>
> If it was fun they wouldn't call it "work" and they wouldn't pay you
> to do it.

I didn't ask for it to be fun. I asked why it was boring, inefficient and
saturated in twisted office politics.

> >                            but we all seem to think they are so
important?
>
> Paying the bills is important.

There may be more important things, or maybe, the question addresses our
system of "paying the bills."

> > 2. Yes, we want money. But then it eats most of our souls. Should we
explore
> > another way?
>
> There is no substitute for the Barter System, which is what we have in
> the world today.  "Money" is just a way to keep score.

Yet money has become the motivation itself.

> > 3. If all everyone wants is peace, why are they trying to enforce it by
war?
> > (If one dog wins, the other will lie in wait for him.)
>
> Ah, but not everyone wants peace.  Some people want what
> someone/everyone else has.  Peace is an ideal that in no way bears any
> resemblance to reality.

(Here we agree.)

> Personally I think there are drawbacks to technology.  According to
> computers, I have died three time in my life already.  Do I REALLY
> need a jiffy pop popcorn maker than can pop popcorn in 30 seconds?  Do
> I need my hot dog to be nuked in a Microwave oven in 10? (I have a
> microwave oven, haven't used it in three years, makes a nice plant
> holder)

Exactly.

> > 5. If we all care about the environment, why do we keep tearing up new
land
> > and replacing it with more of the same crap? (see question #2)
>
> Not everybody cares about the environment.

Maybe we should start caring then. Or maybe the "not everybody cares" is the
problem - democracy lets us isolate from the problems that do exist by
inventing ones of our own.