My Uncle Woolf in England was a trade union man and loyal communist who would go to every branch meeting, attend every voting session that was usually held on rainy, wintry Monday nights when just enough of similarly minded die-hards would make a quorum & pass resolutions that rarely reflected the will of the majority. Uncle Woolf became a local organiser working on the principle that the more you asked people to vote, the less they would, so the radical minority could claim legitimacy. So I fear D2 will not be able to steer between the rocks of indifference & whirlpool of manipulation.
That said, your website does make a good case - it is also witty, intelligent & engaging. Rationally I am a D2er, but this grumbling gut is not just airline food (or a noisy breakfast).
A tip o' the hat.
Denis replies:
Laxative, Mike; align the gut with the head
Mike's business is making people think. He's made me think more new things than almost anyone I know. That's a lot of new things. If you'd like a monthly zap of new things, write to him nicely -- mike@freedthinkers.com – and ask him to send you his Freedthinkers mailing.
What he makes me think this time (and I've told him I'm going to biff him & bop him, he can biff & bop back) is "Ag man no man Mike man, you should be the last guy to fall into saying that things don't work so there's no point making things work".
Sowaar. It's one thing for lurkers in the bar, one hand round a quart and the other chilling at pocket billiards, to go on and on with the Great Seffrican Gripe:
"Nothing's gonna work here, hey, there's too many obstacles".
"So let's remove the obstacles".
"You can't do that! There's obstacles to removing the obstacles".
But the likes of Mike, professional fixers of broken things, have to go beyond, don't they?
Mike, I can believe that Uncle Woolf was more communist than democrat. I love the poetry of your rocks and whirlpool. Uncle Woolf's guiding principle is masterly. [And I hope you've imbibed the reasoning on why D2 will never ask anyone to vote.] But I give you here three propositions, and I want you to please kindly answer a small easy question:
Which of these propositions is wrong and why is it wrong?
Prop 1: the average citizen of this or any nation is a person who does not go to Party rallies, does not wear Party T-shirts, does not chant Party slogans, is interested in a peaceful life and in low taxes, and can not spell ideolagy.
Prop 2: if for my leader to put threat into your life he needed my assent – given freely, in privacy, and in awareness of resistance that you might mount and allures that you might offer – you will seldom face intolerable threat.
Prop 3: to secure the rule of the average citizen the natural route is a web of political units, each answerable to its own voters, binding us in a free flow between joint control of our nation and separate interests in its parts.
Unless at least one of these propositions is wrong, Mike, the grumbling gut will have to still itself, no?
And in your case, it does not stop with "stilling". Once your head and your gut are in alignment you're going to be a D2er of note. You're the one who espouses the upside potential of freed thinking. This bit of freed thinking leads to more upside potential than any amount of marketing technique. It's finally the difference between the Leash-them outlook and the Open outlook. You're a natural, china; just sort that gut.
I tip the hat back to you.
See Mike's reply here.
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