[MD] Distinguishing Levels

[craigerb at comcast.net]

Ian,
My point was that stability is not like, for example, fairness.  The more fairness in a model the better.  But stability is only good for good models & then only if the model is flexible.

[Ian]
> a model in which an intellectual elite (who understand the MoQ) have sufficient
> powerbase to be effective, but insufficient power to provide
> attractions of short term selfish gains...or are genuinely people driven by the higher
 > intellectual aims (in Maslow or Hertzberg terms). Something like a democracy over multiple
> evolutionary generations. An elite that can be voted out by their
> stock of votes over many human and electoral cycles

The problems I see with this model:
1)  How is "understanding the MoQ" to be determined?  By vote (= beauty contest)?
2)  How do we endow their powerbase but keep it limited?  By a written constitution & a supreme court?
3)  How do we determine who is "genuinely driven by the higher intellectual aims"?  Do we make them swear on a copy of  Maslow or Hertzberg, have another elite determine this or let the masses decide?
4) Democracy has already evolved over many generations.  Why isn't it already where we want to be? 
5) Do we really want the incumbants to stay in office for "many electoral cycles".  If so, how would we know?
Craig