DEMOCRATIC VALUES — excerpts!           (popular essay)           Chris MYRSKI, 2004       — — —             Abstract:      This is a relatively small speech about the moral and the democracy, the point being that these are different things; also about the democracy in general and is it good or bad and why it is how it is; as also about what we may do if we want to make things better. But, it being a speech, you have to know, that the word "speech" is related to the word, sorry, "spit", what has to say that one has to expect some "spitting" against the democracy. Well, if you think so, then you will not be disappointed, especially in the poetical appendix at the end.         — — —           0. Stating Of The Question      Very often in the latter years I have been highly alarmed by the commonly used phrase about the "democratic values" which we have to defend, insist upon them, apply in our work, turn into reality, maintain constantly, and so on, meaning some moral values that have come to life with the democracy, but the point is, though I much regret to say this, that it could not be true by the simple fact that ...      April 2004       — — —           APPENDIX           My Salute to the Democracy   To democracy salute I will give, and rather good, That is eloquent enough Of the matter and the stuff. ... July 2002              — — — — —