Linux still largely invisible in the marketplace

[Peter]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Ivan Avery Frey wrote:

> Peter wrote:
>
>> Imho that would require the unwashed masses (of voters) to replace belief 
>> (in false promises repeated over and over) with rationality. But that, in 
>> turn, would require the unwashed masses to stop being unwashed masses. And 
>> *that* would require an educational system that would educate them in this 
>> direction. 
>
> Careful here. Your contempt for the "unwashed masses" is shared by elites of 
> all stripes be they of the left or right.

It is not contempt, it is irony. Sorry if misunderstood.

>> I can see a problem here (and I can tell you that the communist education 
>> system used in former Eastern European countries, which tried to do this up 
>> to a point, was a failure out of this point of view).
>> 
> The collapse of an ideology with little bloodshed points maybe to the success 
> of the educational system?
>
> I dunno just my 2 cents.

Each sees what he is looking for, when looking hard enough. The collapse 
was not bloodless in many cases, and it was not in the case that I have 
witnessed personally.

Worse, the backlash, the reaction to communism, was proportional to the 
amount of repression it represented. This means that national socialist 
movements are again legitimate in those countries, in despite of 
previous experiences in the domain. This is what I call a failure of the 
education system, together with the unbearably long time it took for the 
shedding of communist power.

Peter
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