Comments on: Obama’s inaugural address http://www.blagnet.net/2009/01/10/obamas-inaugural-address/ Discussing libertarian philosophy Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:24:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: kerrjac http://www.blagnet.net/2009/01/10/obamas-inaugural-address/comment-page-1/#comment-1214 kerrjac Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:45:38 +0000 http://www.blagnet.net/2009/01/10/obamas-inaugural-address/#comment-1214 What a watered-down piece of crap that's going to produce. It's hard enough writing something with one or two other people, but this is going to be written by hundreds. People forget that in a democracy we elect our leaders to lead, we don't lead ourselves. Democracy works well to elect our leaders, but it falls flat in all sorts of other aspects of life. The best manuscripts in Western intellectual history were written by 1 author - or at the most 2 very compatible ones. New ideas are best introduced by great minds who think from a particular perspective. Imagine if the most influential books in Western history were written by a committee. But it's this sort of confusion - that democracy is best in all sorts of aspects of life - that leads to misdirected projects like the People's Inaugural Address. What a watered-down piece of crap that’s going to produce. It’s hard enough writing something with one or two other people, but this is going to be written by hundreds. People forget that in a democracy we elect our leaders to lead, we don’t lead ourselves.

Democracy works well to elect our leaders, but it falls flat in all sorts of other aspects of life. The best manuscripts in Western intellectual history were written by 1 author – or at the most 2 very compatible ones. New ideas are best introduced by great minds who think from a particular perspective. Imagine if the most influential books in Western history were written by a committee.

But it’s this sort of confusion – that democracy is best in all sorts of aspects of life – that leads to misdirected projects like the People’s Inaugural Address.

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