Dialectics and Governing

http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/commentary/data/000242

This is a really cool article on the use of language and as it relates to development.  It makes sense that language use can act as either an enabler or a disabler of development, depending on the concentration of people who are able to speak the languages that are used in the halls of power and control.  I think that it would create a tremendous disconnect between the governed and the governing, which leads to disconnects in culture, outlook and world perspective.

Similar cases can be seen in Russia where the upper class almost exclusively spoke French instead of Russian.

And look where that got them.

But, trust the patricians to care about something like this.  They've never worked the sweat jobs of the world for pittances like most of the rest of the world has to do on a daily basis.  If they do, they think of it as an excuse to get off being connected to others, which is moot, considering you're always going to be connected to others regardless of what you do or think to make it be otherwise.

Let the inevitable elites that spring up then speak a variety of languages, such that they can communicate with their own people at the very least.  Let them grow up common, such that they understand their place in the world relative to everyone else, and can understand and relate to those whom they're responsible for by default. 

And, may the adults of this world understand the sense of these polices, for their own sake and their own benefit, such that the disconnected and disaffected do no end up behind the levers of power, control and authority in this world.

For their own sake.

As much as for the sake of everyone and everything else.

Think about it.

Cause we're pretty boned when we don't.

Think about it.