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Thursday, February 25, 2010 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM

 Move on big boy, Red-winged Blackbird, Pyrrhuloxia, Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM, February 20, 2010
Move on big boy, Red-winged Blackbird, Pyrrhuloxia, Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM, February 20, 2010

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Site 16 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM

Emergent democracy

Culture brings us together, usually at a very small scale through mutual belief, trust and common interest. It educes, not compels, behavior. Culture codified is law. It is as inevitable as the day the night that as scale increases, law increases. Law enforced is government. Government does not, in the main, educe behavior, but compels it. Democratic or otherwise, rarely, very rarely, does any concentration of power or wealth desire to see subjects well informed, truly educated, their privacy ensured or their discourse uninhibited. Those are the very things that power and wealth fear most. Old forms of government have every reason to operate in secret, while denying just that privilege to subjects. The people are to be minutely scrutinized while power is to be free of examination.

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