With All due respect to the Great writer of "The Doll House", as I'm sure he was one of the greatest things to ever come out of the Scandinavian pennisula, people's minds and mindsets are always dictated by society or a rebellion against it. That being said, it is impossible to divorce government- in any meaningful way- from that society. We live in a world of moral relativism- religion can't fix it, ideas can't fix it. Policy is the only way to change the world quickly and effectively. Power politics is in it's highest stages and does not seem to want to slow down.
Democracy may be dictated by those who are already elected, but the only way to change that is to become elected yourself.
Personally I like Sweedish fish better than Ibsen, but then again- that's saying a lot, as I do love Sweedish Fish.
Point taken, but I believe you misunderstood my statement (as it was not an argument, but, as in modern drama, a comment on society, be it right or wrong, good or evil. And that was the biggest run-on sentence ever. Ok not ever. Paul's run-on's are insane...). I never imagined 'ideas' and 'religion' to 'fix' politics (I've gone quote happy). On the contrary. Ibsen actually states that there has to be substance behind ideas such as the French revolutionary 'liberty, equality, and fraternity
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The reason segregation didn't "end" until the 60's was because those in power didn't want it to end. In so far as a person has to have an idea to create revolution, you are correct. But the government controls, directly or indirectly, the reasons for thes ideas. You rebel against government policy because you disagree with the government. Conversly, government rebel's against practices it does not like due to policy
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Really all we are doing is going into the whole: which came first, the chicken or the egg. You say people are the way they are because the government/society makes them that way. I say society/government is the way it is because the people's opinions form it (in a democracy... obviously this does not apply to communist/totalitarian countries
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Democracy may be dictated by those who are already elected, but the only way to change that is to become elected yourself.
Personally I like Sweedish fish better than Ibsen, but then again- that's saying a lot, as I do love Sweedish Fish.
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