Pundita explains democracy, globalization, and the Bush Doctrine



Hat tip to Winds of Change for introducing me to Pundita, one of the most brilliant analysts I've found on the Blogosphere; I've added her (?) to my feeds to watch:

Which returns me to the need for sensible people everywhere to start talking as much sense as possible to their government, including the one in Beijing. What's important is not the word 'democracy;' what's important are the ideas behind it, and the truth that democracy makes for the best form of government in the age of megapopulations. So the task is to find a way to translate the same universal ideas which Bush sketched into one's own language and cultural referents.

Our parents' generation got us this far. They did the best they could. Now it's our turn to keep the human race lurching along. This time around, we need all hands on deck. There's no use bemoaning the shipwrecks of bad government. One must take the position that to be human is to err -- but work fast, very fast, to correct the most glaring errors.

Posted: Fri - June 17, 2005 at 11:37 AM        

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