[MD] Distinguishing Levels

[ian glendinning]

Khaled,

That fact that the word does occasionally come tumbling down, does of
course demonstrate the validity of the MoQ as a real world model, from
which we can learn.

I think it helps in the evolutionary world-view to remember that
"they" were once "we".

I'm no expert in governement and politics, but I'm rapidly coming to
the view that the model that can provide greatest stability is one 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 if they do, the elite 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, rather than a
single "beauty contest".

Without something like that, "hypocrisy" is a part of culture that
everyone in any position of authority has to reconcile on a daily
basis, even the good guys. Our Catch-22.

Ian