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<blockquote data-quote="Vanilla23" data-source="post: 3222266" data-attributes="member: 152241">Yep - I live in a representational democracy. I didn&#039;t say the system was bad, I said that it&#039;s a handicap to progress towards your criteria for an &#039;advanced&#039; society.&nbsp;&nbsp;A benevolent liberal totalitarian state governed by an entity who genuinely has the best interests of all at it&#039;s heart and the intelligence to make decisions in that best interest? Yes, yes I would.&nbsp;&nbsp;No they don&#039;t. Equal opportunities and participation in a good educational system, tailored to include citizenship and make sure that all members of the society are both interested and involved in governance of said society would address my concerns. Simply equal educational opportunities do not do so.&nbsp;In fact I do live in a society with equal educational opportunities - they&#039;re nicely equal and tailored to the lowest common denominator, with very little provision for those of higher ability or determination. As a result we have the non-interested learning basic mathematics and reading (yes, this is a good thing I&#039;ll admit) but we do not have the interested being taught advanced quantum physics and higher artistic theory.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vanilla23, post: 3222266, member: 152241"] Yep - I live in a representational democracy. I didn't say the system was bad, I said that it's a handicap to progress towards your criteria for an 'advanced' society. A benevolent liberal totalitarian state governed by an entity who genuinely has the best interests of all at it's heart and the intelligence to make decisions in that best interest? Yes, yes I would. No they don't. Equal opportunities and participation in a good educational system, tailored to include citizenship and make sure that all members of the society are both interested and involved in governance of said society would address my concerns. Simply equal educational opportunities do not do so. In fact I do live in a society with equal educational opportunities - they're nicely equal and tailored to the lowest common denominator, with very little provision for those of higher ability or determination. As a result we have the non-interested learning basic mathematics and reading (yes, this is a good thing I'll admit) but we do not have the interested being taught advanced quantum physics and higher artistic theory. [/QUOTE]

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