Athens – The truth about Democracy
December 15th, 2007 1 comment link to (permalink) posted by david
Don’t be put off by the title, this is not a conspiracy theory piece, but a very interesting (if rather pedestrian in format) re-examination of 5th Century BCE Athens ‘ democracy. This hundred year period two and a half millennia ago, is the model for all Western democracy, yet the reality of its mechanism and outcome is not what has become commonly accepted.
Its a great premise for learning from history, both literally and by analogy.
(These documentaries are wrongly labeled on Google – Part 2 is part one and part 2 is unlabeled)
48 min 4 sec Nov 30, 2007
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Sue Richardson : Mar 12, 2008 at 4:54 pm
I found this doc. fascinating and illuminating, not least because though I knew democracy was based on slavery, I didnt know the full extent of it. Watching the actions of the so-called democracies of late, with their wars and psych-ops against the people shows very little has changed. Look forward to seeing the rest of the programmes. Every “democrat” should watch these and see what conclusions they come to. The logical conclusion would be anarchism. SR
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