[extropy-chat] late response to Dan/Technotranscendence

[Technotranscendence]

On Wednesday, January 07, 2004 1:02 PM Rafal Smigrodzki
rafal at smigrodzki.org wrote:
>>> I'm basically anti-democratic.
>>
>> Wow, I am not the only one? This is sooo cool!
>> I did not believe that I was an idiot before joining
>> this list, but some of my remaining doubts re my
>> sanity, wisdom and intelligence have further
>> faded as I read things like this from other smart
>> beings.
>
> ### Welcome to the club! I am also anti-democratic
> (i.e. anti-majoritarian-elective-democracy), although
> I am strongly pro-democratic in the sense of letting
> people have maximum control over their own lives
> (be masters of their own destiny rather than being
> ruled by elites or mobs), for example by market-like
> mechanisms.

The correct term for "letting people have maximum control over their own
lives" is individualism -- not democracy.  Democracy is merely about how
the elites are selected.

Later!

Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/Poetry.html