This book changed my lifeThe Goat writes, "Some books have made a huge impact on my life." It's true. It wasn't until the b3ta mods read the Flashman novels that we changed from mild-mannered computer operators into heavily-whiskered copulators, poltroons and all round bastards in a well-known cavalry regiment.
What books have changed the way you think, the way you live, or just gave you a rollicking good time?
Friendly hint: A bit of background rather than just a bunch of book titles would make your stories more readable
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chthonic, Thu 15 May 2008, 15:11)
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@ChickenladyActually, you're wrong on this. By "democracy" I presume you mean something representative such as we see in the West now, rather than something Athenian. Either way, though, the right to protest at bad or unjust laws isn't implicit in democracy - we could imagine an "enlightened despotism" that had exactly the same mechanism: there are alternative ways to have both freedom and good government (and, for what it's worth, I'm not convinced that democracy, in the Western model, is the best. But that's for another time).
People didn't fight wars to defend freedom of speech, either. Just didn't happen.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:23,
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