Re: Good Government (was: Evolution of governments (was: Consistency in naming))

--- Akhilesh Pillalamarri <valardil@...>
wrote:

> Democracy will never truly work.
Not on a large scale and not in anything less
than a highly educated and fanatic population.
The former is required if citizens are to offer
an informed vote (voice in government); the
latter is a vital requirement in order to weed
out government officials who are anything less
than committed to Democratic ideals and the
proper good of the nation.

> Communism,
> while it has it's goods, has problems.
Obviously.

> Monarchy
> is at fault if a bad king comes into power.
Amongst other things...

> Fascism is a rascist hate based system.
> Therefore, no system of government in perfect.
No one ever said any government system yet
devised ìs perfect!

> Our current democratic age will be but a brief
> flicker in history.
Here's hoping you're wrong! I think you will, in
the end, be proven wrong if for no other reason
than that it hás worked here in the US. Our
future may be troubled, but there will always be
the historical fact that it did work, and people
may be willing to try it all over again.

> Already as we can see,
> democracy is usually an excuse for corrupt and
> instable leaders to come to power.
Totally false. Corrupt people come to power
because we elect them to power. We elect them to
power because we're lazy. Blame us, not the
system.

> It does not
> really even work  anywhere except for in
> America, Western Europe, and Japan. Elsewhere,
> it is a failure, and even in America we have
> tyrants such as Bush.
Well, if he's a tyrant, I am truly thankful I
didn't live, for example, under Stalin! Or any
number of far worse world "leaders". Or do you
mean tyrant in the Greek sense? That's patently
untrue.

And curious that in one breath you say that
Democracy can't work, yet one of the places you
list where it does work has no long standing
tradition of democracy (Japan). Go figure!

> Therefore, in Aryez, land of the Aryezin, we
> have a kind of government called Sociocracy
> based on
> 1. Complete social freedom
> 2. Little political freedom
> 3. Some economic freedom
> In some ways, it is like China......
Sound a lot like the US currently, in some
ways...

> Sociocracy is a great system.
It'd be nice to hear a little about how it works,
before accepting such a judgement. Go on over to
Conculture and tell us all about it!

Padraic.


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