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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. true democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe.
-R. Buckminster Fuller
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R. Buckminster Fuller
The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. true democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe.
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