In Karl Popper's definition, found in his two-volume book The Open Society and Its Enemies, he defines an "open society" as one which ensures that political leaders can be overthrown without the need for bloodshed, as opposed to a "closed society", in which a bloody revolution or coup d'état is needed to change the leaders. Democracies are examples of the "open society", whereas totalitarian dictatorships and autocratic monarchies are examples of the "closed society".
Do you think it would work? Or is it an utopian thought?
Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:59 am
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It would work in conjunction with our consitutional republican form of gov't. that
we currently under this tyranny, sadly no longer have.
The bottom line is this, the greed and lust for power and all things material is ever present in those of us that are able and willing to take advantage of it.
However, corruption is not perfect, the pendulum will break in the opposite direction and all will fail! IMO
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