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Originally posted by Displaced Flames fan@Sep 8 2004, 03:06 AM
First of all, I'm not Cow. :P
Secondly, you're changing the question....your original statement was the democracy is a relatively new concept. That, sir, is false.
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Sorry Dis. I was rolling and made a boo boo on who I was replying to.
I still contend that democracy is in its infancy. The Greeks practiced it (to what ends we really don't know) but this was the only culture to really have done so other than the ones we know today. It disappeared from the face of the earth for a couple thousand years there. Even in today's world democracy is practiced to varying degrees with many different systems. Its impacts are different from system to system. It is still be refined and is still developing in many ways. I think it still is a "relatively" new concept and is still not a proven entity for formation of government. Civilizations have used all sorts of methods of rule for
thousands of years to successfully build and defend their empires. Democracy, in the form we know it, has been in used for how long? A couple of hundred years, and used primarily in the US. Its acceptance level is still not great. Its spreading, but it doesn't have market penetration yet IMO.
