View Full Version : Classify French historian Alexis de Tocqueville
Tooting Carmen
09-30-2019, 10:33 PM
Writer of the seminal book Democracy in America.
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Kivan
09-30-2019, 10:37 PM
Atlantid.
Bakha
09-30-2019, 11:07 PM
Med
Xacal
10-01-2019, 04:40 AM
Atlantid
Samnium
10-01-2019, 06:18 AM
Atlantid with some med, anyway one of the greatest political theorists of the 19th century.
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Tooting Carmen
07-05-2021, 06:46 PM
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Andullero
07-05-2021, 06:47 PM
Atlanto-Med.
Tooting Carmen
07-05-2021, 06:59 PM
Atlanto-Med.
According to him, "in the United States, more than anywhere else, people believe strongly in the right to private judgement, yet in no other place is there less independence of thought." (My emphasis).
Andullero
07-05-2021, 07:10 PM
According to him, "in the United States, more than anywhere else, people believe strongly in the right to private judgement, yet in no other place is there less independence of thought." (My emphasis).
A curious "tyranny of the majority" in the realm of ideas, if there is any.
Tooting Carmen
07-05-2021, 07:21 PM
A curious "tyranny of the majority" in the realm of ideas, if there is any.
Exactly. As De Tocqueville explained, whereas more traditional societies usually rely on either brute force or traditional leaders such as priests, imams and tribal chiefs to control what people say and think, the US does it through collective public opinion.
Tooting Carmen
08-16-2022, 09:51 PM
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Uranous
08-17-2022, 02:35 AM
Atlantid
Odelia
08-17-2022, 06:25 AM
Looked like a gothic lesbo who drinks coffee and pats her cats all day long.
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