Alexis de Tocqueville (1805)
Tocqueville was a French political scientist, historian, and politician. Born into an aristocratic family with ties to the king, his future in government was jeopardized by a revolution in 1830. To distance himself from the trying political situation at home, he embarked on a government-sanctioned mission to the US. Out of it came his best-known work, Democracy in America—the first analytical study of the strengths and weaknesses of US society. What conclusions did Tocqueville draw in it? More… Discuss
My take on this issue:
“Democratically Speaking…Greed, Is Undemocratic…greed is pathological and antisocial…greed is like the pest, that doesn’t survive its last victim!”
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Thanks for referencing to my article. I enjoyed your website… Scripta manent!
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related:
http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/taboo-atheism/#comment-5390
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Thanks for referencing!
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Alexis de Tocqueville wrote: “The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other…” etc.: still the same at least in the BIBLE BELT; in France atheism is up to date since 200 years, in the U.S. maybe in 200 years? My opinion: too many wars were legalized by Christians …
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It is greed that made them do it: There is no antigreed medicine, there is no imunity to the disease.
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