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LiquidHYDROGEN wrote:I don't follow what you are trying to say. Could you rephrase that?

A judge is only knowledgeable on the law and it's application. They wouldn't be able to successfully run a major telecom corporation, for instance, or administer a whole region because even administration and management are skills that not everyone has. It's why China is so will run, despite it's size - it's leaders are all engineering and administration/management graduates.

sorry typo.

LiquidHYDROGEN wrote:I'm not advocating for a one-man dictatorship. I prefer a single-party regime that comprises of experienced and highly educated technocrats.
Re: Democracy bad for Africa?
Post by gurey25 » 08 Jan 2017 21:18

was agreeing

gurey25 wrote: Sun Jan 08, 2017 12:47 pm
no i am allot crazier than you think.
I am proposing a single party rule at the top and direct democracy at the bottom,

subsidiarity is nature, its natural, we should always work with nature not against it.

Could you elaborate please, I don't know how you would reconcile radical democracy with top-down single-party authoritarianism? That's like trying to reconcile communism with laissez-faire capitalism.

gurey25 wrote: Sun Jan 08, 2017 12:47 pm
Communism is horrible worng, due to not understanding how people think,
Libertariasm is horrible and frightning in reality far worse than neo-liberalism
its just the dreams and fantasies of spoilt rich people that dont want a government to nanny them.

Anarchism is not understood very well, you probably assumed libertariansm to be a flavour of it, didnt you,.

I still think anarchists are pipe-dreamers, otherwise can you point a period or place in history where it was successfully applied?

Interesting , sorry for not being able to reply in details or keep up with the conversion .

This is such an interesting topic when you know that Africa is for the most part inhabited by peoples of communities .
In Europe , France for example has had its revolution , where the CITIZEN , his rights and responsiblities are tremendously put forth almost religiously . Then they had the industrial revolution , which created this capitalism we know today based on the individual not the community . Now I understand as Gurey may be eluding to , that the problem with the some European universalist is that they may want to agressively want to export those notions , which essentially what the French colonial idea was , as opposed the the more self absorbed anglo saxon one that kept a minimal foortprint in places like Somaliland , which turned out to be a good thing for us .
Personally I believe in democracy for the masses ,where every man is given a share in it . Now of course we can tweak it depending on the region , but I believe in horizontal linearity just like my people , the troublesome somalis .

i agree with these sentiments , but we need pragmatism not idealism,
we need results.