Spoken like a STALINIST.
Well...I applaude your honesty even if I think you're a damned fool.
Actually I'm much more of a Feudalist than I am anything else. I'm in favor of a return to a structure similar to 12th-13th Century European Feudalism more than anything else.
Sure I understand.
And there is much to be said for the STABILITY of a feudalist society, too.
When I am really sick to death of reading the ignorant blather that many of my fellow citizens believe, I find myself also ROOTING for a government by the elite, too.
The problem with a society where the elite has ALL the power, and the people none is this:
They might START OUT as meritocracies, but they don't STAY that way.
So what you end up with is a SCION leadership class that is venal, arrogant AND incompetent.
I do not think there is any one size fits all perfect form of government or perfect kind of economic system, either.
I think there are types of government best suited to the times and conditions that the society is facing.
I can easily see how seductive is must be for our current crop of masters of the universe to think that GLOBALIZATION is the direction that humankind MUST inevitably head.
In fact, I'm inclined to agree with that sentiment in a theoretical kind of way.
But NOT the way we're doing it now.
Now the system it is not leading to a better world for humankind.
It is merely leading to a kind of neo-fuedalism that is NOT sustainable, either.
A society that sets out to be unjust (and that is exactly what this system is setting out to do) is doomed to both economic AND social inefficiencies that ultimitely lead to disaster.
And that appears to me to be the direction that the current Globalization by economic forces is taking us.
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