ABC talk: Majority Rule - is that democracy?
Author/editor: John Passmore
Year published: 2011
Abstract
Another piece from Eddy's collection of wartime Australian political discourse. A sneak peak: 'Our tendency is to think that the growth of democracy implies an ever-increasing uniformity. More and more, we take liberty to mean freedom to have what we call ‘a good time,’ equality to mean reducing everyone to a dead level of mediocrity, fraternity to mean doing what our neighbour does.
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