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Wat?
1.Democracy is a rule of the majority.
2.America is a democracy.
3.The poorer 80% of Americans have only 15% of the wealth.
4.So the poor 80% rule America.
5.This 80% does not have it in their best interests to maintain this economic system.
6.So this 80% will use their democratic power to change the economic system to something more egalitarian.
Yet (6) is not happening. But if it was working properly, it sure seems like it should be. You probably already know somethings fucked, but that ought to be a clear statement of it.
The continental tradition ain't got shit on the Analytic crew, Hume, Ayer, Lord Russell, Quine and Wittgenstein!
Politically, I am pretty left wing, even for Canadian philosophy students, a group that's pretty damn left wing.
6.522 There are indeed things that cannot be put into words, they make themselves manifest, they are what is mystical.
And here's the Watson to my Holmes, the Batman to my Robin.
