Efficiency, growth, and profit may not always be a precondition or even an consequence of democracy so much as a substitute for it.
--Tony Judt, "The Wrecking Ball of Innovation" (2007)
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- Net Neutrality Wins a Round
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- John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published two novels and is writing a third.
1 comment:
China doesn't have nor want Democracy - they're quite happy with a Plutocracy.
Although to be fair, more and more it seems so is America...
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