"America was lucky to have leaders such as Washington."
Well, yes, i think they were ... But, the story of participatory democracy started long before that ... Washington was transplanted english, second generation i believe, right? ... the frame of his view of the rights of man went back through the traditions of english yeomanry, through the Magna Carta, back to ancient roots .... the american revolucion, like the french and the russian and the mexican, like all revolutions likely, was like a mushroom - the greater part was out of sight, and built over time - what we see as the fruiting body is only the apparently sudden visible manifestation of a long process ... like the fall of the Berlin Wall ... that took many years, and then it fell in one night, without bloodshed ... the opening of Cuba could be like that, i think. |
