Posted by hank, Fri Jul 04 16:31:00 UTC 2008
As I’ve been reading various books, an idea keeps popping up.
Suddenly radio playlists, MTV, and A&R guys aren’t the all-powerful gatekeepers anymore. At long last the music industry is becoming a democracy.
In our governmental systems, we elect representatives to make decisions for us, sending them to Washington to write bills, oppose bills, pass bills, or veto bills. We ideally find candidates who will make similar decisions to those we ourselves would make. We elect them in a process called democracy (unless it’s a presidential election, in which case the popular vote only determines a winner-takes-all vote for the state, allowing the electoral votes to originate from one party or another). In government, a direct legislative rule by the people is as dangerous as a direct legislative rule by any tyrant. In a country where we preach equal treatment of any minority, we cannot have raw majority rule, where fear of the majority silences all those who might oppose it out of fear of rejection, blasphemy, or outright violence.
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