Lessons Learned

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 12:23 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 3/20/07, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 12:04 -0400, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:
> > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > >
> > > > Instead, Fedora has a leadership system, which is widely being ignored
> > > > by the public, unless it interferes with individual contributor
> > > > interests.
> > >
> > > Isn't that basically how governments work?
> > Temporarily yes.
> >
> > History tells, in longer terms such governments inevitably will die. In
> > democratic systems, they sooner or later will be replaced, in absolutist
> > systems these governments will sooner or later be chased or die
> > lonesome.
> >
> 
> Is this the "pure anarchy is the only true freedom!" argument?

No, this the a "government without supporters will not work" argument.

A consequence from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
and its reflection on modern democracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Contract_%28Rousseau%29

Ralf