From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Sep 06 2003 - 01:19:13 MDT
At 04:38 PM 9/6/03 +1000, Alejandro Dubrovsky wrote:
>> one controls all that land and all
>> those people, but is all screwed up. The other is
>> free and prosperous. It's a lesson a six year old
>> child couldn't miss.
>Only if he had no access to g**gle. Otherwise the little enquirer would
>find out that Taiwan was under martial law for the first 80% of its
>independent history and that its first general elections were in 1996,
>by which time it was already prosperous relative to its mainland
>neighbour. You could always censor those pages, to reinforce the
>democratic message.
Yes, another beautiful theory slain by an ugly fact.
But hey, Alejandro, your Aussie prejudices are showing through. Nobody said
anything about *democracy*. Plenty of posters to this list curl their lip
at the suggestion that there's anything good to be said about that system.
Damien Broderick
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