Governance With RCS: YouTube tells that I cannot show this video with R. Nadar in Colombia.
It seems that someone belives we are not all ready to practice self-governance. They are probably right.
I'll repeat what I had to some time ago about this nice little video:
Forty years of lack of practice are resulting in loss of our hard one democracy. We have passed our governance into the hands of others and now we are passing into superfluoueness. Do we believe ourselves useless?
I suggested to U.S. citizens that a reread of Our Declaration of Indepence may be useful. When we do not use it we lose it.
Nadar is reminding us of that which we can do. Listen carefully for what can be done. He says that it takes only about 1% of us to be strongly effective an I believe that he is correct. However, if we will not teach 20% of us to do democracy we may not deserve it.
We can learn to do it by doing it, has been said. I have heard it said that "practice makes perfect." I do not believe that; however, from experience, I know it helps. Who has told us the meaning of democracy and how we can work it? Know matter, we can find out for ourselves.
We already know something about co-operation, and some of us have usefuk ideas about democratic organization. We have begun on the way to taking care of ourselves and that is the way of self-governance.
We can learn how to more effectively co-operate and organize. Some of our grand- parents and great grandparents did.
Some of our youth have good ideas of freedom: freedom to claim duties, freedom to claim rights, freedom to claim free communication, free elections, and more. And they already know that very little comes to us without a cost.
Check the meaning of superfluous and of democracy.
by Richard