[MD] Distinguishing Levels

[ian glendinning]

Craig, Khaled,

You should have course realize I was alluding to a hereditary
aristocracy as part of the argument. But let's not throw the baby out
with the bathwater here, when screaming "off with their heads".

Biology is only one form of inheritance in a socio-intellectual
arisocrcay (The Wise One) which is where we started ? You missed my
main point I think. I was just throwing in some ideas for creating
high quality social and intellectal inheritance, rather than
biological.

Ian

On 6/2/06, Khaled Alkotob <khaledsa at juno.com> wrote:
> Craig
>
> I agree with you 100%.
>
> The point i was trying to make, is that I would rather see an educated
> aristocracy with good stewardship as opposed to a democracy with
> ( as someone put it a few days back ) a beauty contest every 4 years.
>
> I live in a town where the mayor is a former TV actor who played a
> sheriff deputy. When he was running for election, a citizen was quoted
> that the reason she is voting for him is because of his law enforcement
> experience.
> He won.
>
> Sadly, the issue in this democracy of ours is not just with the elected
> official, but the hoodwincked-voting-public that puts them in office.
>
> On a lighter side, it' s probably easier to have a class welfare to
> remove the aristocracy than to recall a bad politician.
>
> Khaled
> [Craig]
>
> > Ian & Khaled,
> > Aristocracy: n. government by the best.  This is the system tried by
> > England: a special hereditary class of leaders, educated at Eaton &
> > Oxbridge, coming together at the court, etc.  Granted democracy has
> > similar problems to aristocracy, e.g., choosing the right leaders,
> > corruption & so on.  But the former has one advantage over the
> > latter in respect to stability.  When something goes wrong in an
> > aristocracy, it becomes an "us vs. them" class warfare.  But when
> > something goes wrong in a democracy, the people (should) realize the
> > solution is in their hands (if not, it's no longer a democracy.)
> > Craig
> >
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