Oh, how true! But tell that to the American people. Tell that to any people. Eternal vigilience is not a public trait except when it comes to scandal, gossip, and pop culture. I'm afraid democracy is a sham...
As time change & people's values change. I guess that trait is not applicable anymore.
It never was.
it was in roman times. despite their ... vicous standing, they were truly advance, having the only true democratic system in effect, and also being the first to host a anonymous ballet to protect its citizens. everyday, people would gather and vote together, as a people. EVERY DAY. they may have sounded like barbarians, but they were a truly gifted and intellgent cilivization where the individual had the same power as others.
seriously, go study up on them. they were truly brilliant.
You are just teeming with misinformation this week...
For one thing, I find it at least the slightest bit amusing that you would suggest to me--of all people--to "go study up" on the Romans, as if the most important society in Western history somehow eluded my attention for all these years. Do you have any idea who you are dealing with? Pft!
Your misguided paragraph on Rome is proof enough that you should take your own advice and "study up" on the Romans. But even putting aside your ignorance, the fact still remains that "eternal vigilience" has never been a human quality that expresses itself collectively--with the exceptions I already provided, all of which cater to humanity's baser interests. Where lofty and hard-earned qualities of character are concerned, public exhibition of these virtues defies our communal psychology to this day, and will continue to do so for a long time to come. Why? All the same culprits as usual, of course! Ignorance, cruelty, laziness, pettiness, egotism, and faith. Multiply that by a whole society of people interacting with one another, and you have one genuinely fucked up public body. That's just who we are, at least in this era of our evolution. We're children.
