"So really, you need to first devise a working system of governance that is constantly correcting for human failures, given that humans are not a domesticated species, and will always try to scam whatever system you create. Then, perhaps, maybe, you could figure out what types of people should be doing what kinds of work."
So very true !!!....... We allow politics to exist as a blood sport when it must be held to the same standards of performance we require in other fields of endeavor, especially for people assuming high office.
Anybody who follows geopolitics will see that leaders and diplomats in Russia and China are well qualified and experienced for their positions. They are not hack politicians who just walked in off the street.
Here in Canada it is ever so reassuring to hear Mark Carney give a press conference where he is calm, intelligent, articulate and can think on his feet.
Exactly, thank you! On that "blood sport" theme, yes that is most unfortunate and the MSM as well as CBC enable as well as thrive on this aspect, turning every election into a "campaign" and a horse-race and trying to predict the "winner." Along the way, they are actually, every program, making suggestions for what "PP" should do to improve his campaign, rather than doing the heavy-lifting of exposing the neo-liberal influencers behind each candidate. But again, they will not do this work because the neo-liberals own the media. They live for the excitement of the race, trying to keep up the looks of a contest, endorse their neo-liberal puppet and enjoy an outcome beneficial to them. The public good - what's that?
You would enjoy reading Simone Weil's book on the abolition of political parties . One of her conclusions is that they ultimately become totalitarian (available on Amazon). Which leads us to Sheldon Wolin and his book: Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism.
"So really, you need to first devise a working system of governance that is constantly correcting for human failures, given that humans are not a domesticated species, and will always try to scam whatever system you create. Then, perhaps, maybe, you could figure out what types of people should be doing what kinds of work."
So very true !!!....... We allow politics to exist as a blood sport when it must be held to the same standards of performance we require in other fields of endeavor, especially for people assuming high office.
Anybody who follows geopolitics will see that leaders and diplomats in Russia and China are well qualified and experienced for their positions. They are not hack politicians who just walked in off the street.
Here in Canada it is ever so reassuring to hear Mark Carney give a press conference where he is calm, intelligent, articulate and can think on his feet.
Exactly, thank you! On that "blood sport" theme, yes that is most unfortunate and the MSM as well as CBC enable as well as thrive on this aspect, turning every election into a "campaign" and a horse-race and trying to predict the "winner." Along the way, they are actually, every program, making suggestions for what "PP" should do to improve his campaign, rather than doing the heavy-lifting of exposing the neo-liberal influencers behind each candidate. But again, they will not do this work because the neo-liberals own the media. They live for the excitement of the race, trying to keep up the looks of a contest, endorse their neo-liberal puppet and enjoy an outcome beneficial to them. The public good - what's that?
You would enjoy reading Simone Weil's book on the abolition of political parties . One of her conclusions is that they ultimately become totalitarian (available on Amazon). Which leads us to Sheldon Wolin and his book: Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism.