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- From: landers@comm.mgmt.purdue.edu (Hazard Class Mage)
- Subject: Re: A Paper on the Social Forces Behind the Development of Usenet
- Sender: news@comm.mgmt.purdue.edu (News owner)
- Message-ID: <landers.122.724097300@comm.mgmt.purdue.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:08:20 GMT
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- References: <2B262525.2DD7@tct.com> <t29qqv-@lynx.unm.edu> <1992Dec10.192501.181@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1g8k4hINN3d2@milk.Warren.MENTORG.COM>
- Organization: Sanctury Mage Guild
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- In article <1g8k4hINN3d2@milk.Warren.MENTORG.COM> tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) writes:
- >Usenet is an anarchy. It is not governed by rules. It is governed by
- >social constructs. The fact that you have misinterpreted certain
- >social constructs as democracy is due to the fact that all you have
- >ever seen is a democracy.
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- All he has ever seen is democracy?!?
- Go back to POL 101. The United States is not a democracy, it never has
- been, it was never intended to be.
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- Bill Clinton was not elected by the will of the majority. He was elected
- according to rules designed to _prevent_ the popular will of the people from
- determining our national leader.
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- Usenet is as much a representation of democracy as is the United States.
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- || Christopher Landers || Gravity: It's not just a good idea, ||
- || landers@comm.mgmt.purdue.edu || It's the law! ||
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