Ed Weick wrote:
> All we know is that many are self-serving and that, as my friend
> said, power corrupts. What we have learned - or some of us have - is that
> we cannot trust our leaders, and that is why we must circumscribe their
> behaviour by laws and process. ^^^^
The problem is: Are those laws really written by _"us"_ ? Or rather by that
"ruling class", to fit _their_ needs ?
[snip]
> So here I am, a one time idealist who has become something close to being a
> cynic. If I believe in anything it is in the power of democratically
> established laws and the circumscription of leadership.
"Democratically established" ? Or rather "written by oligarchy and (more
or less) agreed _indirectly_ by a (more or less) informed majority in a
representative democracy" ?
Today's Western democracies are about as close to ideal democracy as
Stalinism was close to classless society.
Chris
(cynic 2 ;-})
