HP227

HP227


The Future of Democracy:
Democracy’s Fatal Flaw

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CONTENT FOR ISSUE 227

  • EDITORIAL: THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY / Gary Bauslaugh

    Simply put, elections encourage and reward lying. We have a system that does select out not the best people but, in some cases at least, the worst – the most effective liars. We do not want to give up on democracy, but what can we do about this?
  • Blodwen Piercy: The Passing of an Outstanding Canadian Humanist / Simon Parcher

    Blodwen Piercy will be especially missed by colleagues fortunate to have worked with her over the years in Canadian Humanist Publications (publisher of Humanist Perspectives Magazine), Humanist Canada and Humanist Ottawa.
  • World System Crisis and the Future of Democracy / Glen T Martin

    Democracy began to emerge as an ideal of human relationships and social conduct that can be embodied within various political structures, but which ultimately transcends all such structures.
  • Humanism and Democracy / Jan Narveson

    Democracy is extremely popular but the idea has it’s problems, and everyone, especially those who aspire to Humanism, needs to be aware of those.
  • Sortition in Canada: A New Dawn for Democracy? / Ronald Servant

    Sortition, the practice of selecting political officials through a lottery system rather than by election, traces its roots back to ancient Athens, the cradle of democracy. It was designed to prevent corruption and promote equal representation.
  • The Value of Studying Philosophy / Ben D'Andrea

    The usual complaint levelled against philosophy is that its concerns are remote from everyday experience. But as I grappled with the big questions raised by the philosophers of the past, I began to understand how they thought and felt about life.
  • Western Civilization in Modernity / Sophie Dulesh

    "The last 300 years are often depicted as an age of growing secularism, in which religions have increasingly lost their importance. If we are talking about theist religions, this is largely correct,” says Yuval Harari.
  • Why be Moral? / Goldwin Emerson

    Perhaps religion has over-emphasized the notion of innate sinfulness and aggressive competition as the essence of human nature. Social scientists suggest that we also have certain drives to develop opportunities for sharing, protecting and creating safe & dependable societies...
  • Hamas 2023 Strategy+Anti-Semitism / Sophie Dulesh

    On October 7, 2023, Hamas' terrorists invaded Israel, murdered 1200 civilians, took 240 hostages and then cowardly melted away among Gazans, making civilian human shields for themselves and publicly threatened to repeat this atrocity. Hamas Says “We Want Oct. 7 Massacre Again and Again”
  • Interview with Carey Linde / Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson

    Carey Linde, a Vancouver social activist and B.C Lawyer has represented parents who believe their children should not begin sex transition until they are older and better capable of making such decisions.