FearlessLeader2
Fundamentalist Loon
Johan511 said--
Government is bunk; it will never make everyone happy.
Nonetheless it exists, and we must admit that the people get what government they deserve. What are we do to but ponder what could be? What great utopias might exist in the future?
Ive never known such stupidity in such an enlightened age as I do in the political system of the US government.
Which begs the question...what do you think is the best form of government? No one is going to like or agree with my answer, but since I started this post, well tough...
I think the best possible governemnt, defining best as one which can maintain domestic tranquility, promote the common defense, and allow the average human as much freedom as is safe for them to possess would be an enlightened despotism.
Only an absolute ruler, who answers to noone, can govern effectively. As soon as he has to deal with a legislature, elected, appointed, or hereditary, or a judiciary that provides oversight, his power has been undermined to the point of rendering him ineffectual. Subordinates that carry his will, and only his, to the local level are fine to ensure efficiency, but no human can aspire to this level of unswerving dedication, that, given even a modest portion of a ruler's power, they will not crave more.
Unfortunately, no human could provide an adequate government. You'd really need a god, or perhaps an AI with millions or directly controlled robot police. Yeah, that's pretty much it. My version of Utopia is a Cybernetic Police State(alterantely a Fundamentalist Police State, where the actual god is present running the show), with a Free Market Economy, and that values Knowledge, to use the Alpha Centauri government types.
What do you think? (Other than that I'm a raving psychotic who desperately needs to be put back on his meds...)
Government is bunk; it will never make everyone happy.
Nonetheless it exists, and we must admit that the people get what government they deserve. What are we do to but ponder what could be? What great utopias might exist in the future?
Ive never known such stupidity in such an enlightened age as I do in the political system of the US government.
Which begs the question...what do you think is the best form of government? No one is going to like or agree with my answer, but since I started this post, well tough...
I think the best possible governemnt, defining best as one which can maintain domestic tranquility, promote the common defense, and allow the average human as much freedom as is safe for them to possess would be an enlightened despotism.
Only an absolute ruler, who answers to noone, can govern effectively. As soon as he has to deal with a legislature, elected, appointed, or hereditary, or a judiciary that provides oversight, his power has been undermined to the point of rendering him ineffectual. Subordinates that carry his will, and only his, to the local level are fine to ensure efficiency, but no human can aspire to this level of unswerving dedication, that, given even a modest portion of a ruler's power, they will not crave more.
Unfortunately, no human could provide an adequate government. You'd really need a god, or perhaps an AI with millions or directly controlled robot police. Yeah, that's pretty much it. My version of Utopia is a Cybernetic Police State(alterantely a Fundamentalist Police State, where the actual god is present running the show), with a Free Market Economy, and that values Knowledge, to use the Alpha Centauri government types.
What do you think? (Other than that I'm a raving psychotic who desperately needs to be put back on his meds...)