http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-november-28-2012/consultants-without-borders
We may have the politics of it right, but we don't have the governing of it down, even in our own country.
Unless
we approach governing from the perspective of science and empirical
study about the world as it actually is in a given era and context
(social, environmental and cosmological), and then work to achieve the
best possible results for everyone while doing the least amount of real
and actual harm to anyone (ie, like the practice of medicine), we will
always be sunk in sub-optimal conditions of governing and politics, and
it will always be our own fault, individually and collectively, as a
species, that it will be the case.
Silly brains.
Think about it.
I
wish I could be a roaming governing consultant, rather than a political
consultant. Notice how just because you win an election, doesn't mean
that you'll get to stay in power afterward (depending upon what you do
with that position).
Democracy
is a complicated thing that goes beyond elections and governing and
politics, to what the people themselves want and need to have in their
society.
And,
it's only thanks to our brains that we become so lousy at doing this
kind of stuff, for one reason or another, in spite of what we'd like to
believe to the contrary.
Think about it.
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