[MD] New Model Army, Mystic(DQ) Experience, and Religion (SQ) as Power

[ian glendinning]

Agreed Craig, that's the main point of any credible alternatives ...

Personally I think the "selection process" matters as well, but the
killer is "power currupts" ... and that's a collective thing usually,
not the individual (with a few exceptions).

Ian

On 8/4/06, craigerb at comcast.net <craigerb at comcast.net> wrote:
> [Ian]
> > better
> > alternatives to "straight" popular democracy ... where the "wrong"
> > people seem to end up in power
>
> I find the problem not with the WRONG PEOPLE, but with the IN POWER, side of the equation.  ("All power corrupts & absolute power corrupts absolutely.")  Hitler was not a problem when he was merely a corporal, but only when he rose to chancellor.  Rather than tinkering with the selection process, maybe we should design the system so that no individual, party or institution has too much unchecked power.
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