Linked by Flatland_Spider on Wed 24th Sep 2008 21:56 UTC
Reason Online, the online presence of libertarian political magazine Reason, is featuring a book review of Cory Doctorow's book, Little Brother. Little Brother re-imagines George Orwell's classic, dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, as a modern cyberpunk thriller for a young adult audience.
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Maybe I should have used the term Anglo-American as many English speaking countries seem to share similar political culture to some extent?
Anyway, there are many types of governments and rule. I would rather hand the power to a democratically elected multi-party government and parliament that is forced to negotiate with all the parties of the society, than to, say, a single party or some behind-the-scenes elites and/or corporations. (Besides of 1984 you could read some new cyperpunk dystopias too where, for example, big corporations have the power and government role is restricted to a minimum; not exactly a nice place either).
Somebody is going to hold the political power anyway, whether we wanted it or not, even in total anarchy. Better to make the system as transparent and democratic as possible in order to avoid corruption and decisions that are wrong from the start. Democratic government sure has its problems, as people are not perfect and as they may sometimes act like fools, but I haven't seen a better form of government yet.