The Guardian has an interesting opinion by Slavoj Žižek, "For Egypt, this is the miracle of Tahrir Square".
It was amazing that most of the comments were ad hominem attacks rather than a critique of his thoughts.
Showing posts with label autocracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label autocracy. Show all posts
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Culture of democracy? Who blocked it?
According to Aljazeer.net, Omar Suleiman, Vice-President of Egypt said on ABC that he wanted to see democracy, "But when will we do that? When the people here have the culture of democracy."Suleiman was quoted in an 11:34 a.m. entry at http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/10/live-blog-feb-10-egypt-protests
My question is who has been blocking the development of that culture.
That leads me to make a challenge to the protesters, show him you have democracy. Organize at the local level, say at Tahrir Square, wherever large number of people have gathered. Determine the offices that are needed to govern yourselves in your immediate vicinity. You might start with a rules committee. Be sure to have more nominations than the members on the committee. Have everybody in the area vote on the slate. Let the committee work a day or two. Vote on their suggestions. Repeat. If this process is not real democracy, I don't know what is.
My question is who has been blocking the development of that culture.
That leads me to make a challenge to the protesters, show him you have democracy. Organize at the local level, say at Tahrir Square, wherever large number of people have gathered. Determine the offices that are needed to govern yourselves in your immediate vicinity. You might start with a rules committee. Be sure to have more nominations than the members on the committee. Have everybody in the area vote on the slate. Let the committee work a day or two. Vote on their suggestions. Repeat. If this process is not real democracy, I don't know what is.
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