content will follow... meantime try to figure out what I mean. not a difficult task with google.
A FEW DAYS LATER...
Sorry, a few days turned out to mean a couple of weeks.
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The United Repubic of Mania formed on the epsilonth of Adember 45 pi A.D. only to be declared a militarist regime by the rest of the world. This was because the big export group of firms Big Export had exploited its workforce and paid the workers a pittance, while at the same time supplying sub-standard, non-quality controlled goods to the importers in Europe, the USA and Asia. Where did it put all its money? Well for one the rich guys at the top of BIG EXPORT were not fattening. Nor were the guys sitting in the management. The money was all going to the corrupt government officials who kept reinforcing their army and extending its bases and the control it had over the activities that went on all around the country. Now they had become powerful enough to conduct a pseudo-election and get away with cheating on it. The United Nations decided to accept their membership under the condition that some neutral observers would be positioned at Crazia, the capital of Mania. In the meantime, some other sovereign important democratic states decided to put their own military personnel there to stabilize the self-justified government. Furthermore, some neighbouring states decided to try get some "economic progress" by lending the newly formed government of Mania a large sum of money to help bail out the nation's broken banks.
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This is the standard form of government that is chosen in newly formed states these days. Just open a newspaper to see. Citizens in developed nations are no longer seriously interested in staying well-informed about current events around the world, but they will be perfectly well-informed about the latest phones and laptops available, and about the most recent cosmetic products. Especially we younger citizens may be described this way. The so-called democracies of developed nations are being lead by a few interested people while the majority of the populace is just watching the TV news at most, hardly able to understand what's actually going on, while particitpation rates in elections seem inversely proportional to measures of economic well-being. I doubt this can be called democracy. Perhaps political participation is evolving to a form of dumbarchy or dumbocracy in which only the specialists feel they need to have a say, or even know what they can choose from. So somebody, please tell me, what is being reported in the news these days? I have no clue.
A FEW DAYS LATER...
Sorry, a few days turned out to mean a couple of weeks.
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The United Repubic of Mania formed on the epsilonth of Adember 45 pi A.D. only to be declared a militarist regime by the rest of the world. This was because the big export group of firms Big Export had exploited its workforce and paid the workers a pittance, while at the same time supplying sub-standard, non-quality controlled goods to the importers in Europe, the USA and Asia. Where did it put all its money? Well for one the rich guys at the top of BIG EXPORT were not fattening. Nor were the guys sitting in the management. The money was all going to the corrupt government officials who kept reinforcing their army and extending its bases and the control it had over the activities that went on all around the country. Now they had become powerful enough to conduct a pseudo-election and get away with cheating on it. The United Nations decided to accept their membership under the condition that some neutral observers would be positioned at Crazia, the capital of Mania. In the meantime, some other sovereign important democratic states decided to put their own military personnel there to stabilize the self-justified government. Furthermore, some neighbouring states decided to try get some "economic progress" by lending the newly formed government of Mania a large sum of money to help bail out the nation's broken banks.
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This is the standard form of government that is chosen in newly formed states these days. Just open a newspaper to see. Citizens in developed nations are no longer seriously interested in staying well-informed about current events around the world, but they will be perfectly well-informed about the latest phones and laptops available, and about the most recent cosmetic products. Especially we younger citizens may be described this way. The so-called democracies of developed nations are being lead by a few interested people while the majority of the populace is just watching the TV news at most, hardly able to understand what's actually going on, while particitpation rates in elections seem inversely proportional to measures of economic well-being. I doubt this can be called democracy. Perhaps political participation is evolving to a form of dumbarchy or dumbocracy in which only the specialists feel they need to have a say, or even know what they can choose from. So somebody, please tell me, what is being reported in the news these days? I have no clue.
