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Hypocrisy is one of the originals of the Western culture. For example, I can be evil because the God will forgive me eventually. I can commit crimes and invade you but you can't because you need to be a Saint. I'm talking about the society as a whole instead of any individuals. This is the same as the Totalitarianism is one of the originals of the Eastern culture. These cultural traits date way before Democracy and Science, and start crawling back during the past decades. The Democracy was only invented several hundreds of years ago. It's an political ideal that's implemented with the Scientific methodology systematically. Without the sophisticated design over the system, the Democracy would never be successful. In fact, It's far from being mature and has been stalled for nearly half a century compared with the advancement of the Science. We need to put down our arrogance and emotional attachment to the good old days. We need to stop the Hypocrisy and reinvent the Democracy with the new Science. It sucks but it is necessary for the future of the entire human race.



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