In case you had not noticed, democracy, as a system of reliable and impartial governance is fatally flawed, as was its evanescent Greek prototype, which excluded 'slaves' and women. 'Democracy" is mob rule. Witness the trial of Socrates; a 500-man jury convicted him of teaching "foreign ideas to the young," says Plato in THE LAWS, those 'foreign ideas derived from Egypt. Witness Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, that large mob of Jewish elders and scribes preferred the murderer and robber, Barabbas, over him, who had healed and who had taught in the name of God, after Pontius Pilate asked them whom to pardon, "washing his hands" of the intra-Jewish religious controversy. "Democracy" is mob-rule. Look at America! Might is right. White is right. Mob rule. Plato's REPUBLIC based on ancient Egyptian principles involving philosopher-kings and "Guardians" is a much better form of governance. But few have read it; no one applies, hardly....
In case you had not noticed, democracy, as a system of reliable and impartial governance is fatally flawed, as was its evanescent Greek prototype, which excluded 'slaves' and women. 'Democracy" is mob rule. Witness the trial of Socrates; a 500-man jury convicted him of teaching "foreign ideas to the young," says Plato in THE LAWS, those 'foreign ideas derived from Egypt. Witness Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, that large mob of Jewish elders and scribes preferred the murderer and robber, Barabbas, over him, who had healed and who had taught in the name of God, after Pontius Pilate asked them whom to pardon, "washing his hands" of the intra-Jewish religious controversy. "Democracy" is mob-rule. Look at America! Might is right. White is right. Mob rule. Plato's REPUBLIC based on ancient Egyptian principles involving philosopher-kings and "Guardians" is a much better form of governance. But few have read it; no one applies, hardly....
