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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com> Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 10:26:09 +0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 53 Message-ID: <orc2dj9gg9egaacvm11tu8ppo41fmqu6fa@4ax.com> References: <cccrcj1bpk6kiho89hljgu68is0o0tn6ra@4ax.com> <7knrcj5q82pse9ce8hjo458kkf0jfadh35@4ax.com> <h2vscjlvas4pdkj1clutgm2ehcli4drpe6@4ax.com> <valuvq$36fbc$1@dont-email.me> <vanb0n$3gcks$1@dont-email.me> <8rkvcjl23oci8ouf8b07jb4g18us8gjkpe@4ax.com> <vaon52$3qjup$1@dont-email.me> <pc20djpu4pdapi5sk8oojmjbrrfjfam0lf@4ax.com> <vaq9gp$1vab$1@dont-email.me> <vaqmv6$4bk2$1@dont-email.me> <var61q$6ku3$1@dont-email.me> <var6ae$69l5$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 05:26:13 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d0b6fba731d346d40135e7e208314b35"; logging-data="376316"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19FlOJbufZcU6+bzs6uPRvF71vZo4Qibkc=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/7.10.32.1212 Cancel-Lock: sha1:TM+29mOsH9l/Niyq99KMG2xgvQY= Bytes: 3255 On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 20:12:47 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote: >On 8/29/2024 8:08 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote: >> On 8/29/2024 4:50 PM, AMuzi wrote: >>> On 8/29/2024 12:01 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote: >>>> On 8/29/2024 1:47 AM, John B. wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> If I read you correctly your definition of Democracy is >>>>> a government >>>>> in which each and every decision is decided by the >>>>> voters, A bit >>>>> cumbersome, isn't it? >>>> >>>> Yes. That was my point. >>> >>> OK, a kingdom with one unitary monarch is simple. >>> Simplicity may not be a desirable feature. >> >> Albert Einstein: 'Everything should be made as simple as >> possible, but not simpler.' >> >> I was curtness enough to research the Einstein statement, above, and apparently there is no evidence that he ever said it. The closest approximation seems to be "It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience". From a lecture delivered "On the Method of Theoretical Physics" The Herbert Spencer Lecture, delivered at Oxford (10 June 1933) > >If I were King I'd advocate monarchy! > >Our Constitution, in the cases and times where it's >observed, works pretty well. Good enough for me and we >ought to try that once again. Soon. Ah, but then you'd have to give up all those wonderful federal funds. It's a bit difficult to track down but in one place I found "Under the American Rescue Plan, Wisconsin will receive $2.5 billion in direct state fiscal aid and $1.9 billion in local government aid from the federal government." So... 4.4 Billion divided by 5.893 million last (census)is something like 746 for every man, woman and child :-) -- Cheers, John B.