[MD] Distinguishing Levels

[Khaled Alkotob]

[Ian]
> I'm no expert in government 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
> power base 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".

Well said. And it's this shallow beauty contest that bothers me. The
masses are being hoodwinked.

And the higher we can bring the quality of the base, the higher the
ruling party becomes.
Instead we have an 8th grade education base and a ruling party a notch or
2 above.

Khaled