Wisdom from Foolishness

Everyday, as I watch governments around the world go about their business, I am increasingly convinced that government while necessary is as an institution fatally flawed. Those capable of acquiring power are rarely the best suited, or even well suited to weild power in such a way to benefit the populace in general.

Even in deomocracy, a system which is heralded as a great marvel because it requires the governors to please a majority of the people. This system is still flawed. It creates a spinelss mass of panderers that won't take a stand. Those willing to hold to their beliefs will always find that some segment of the population will oppose at least part of their position, while another segment finds fault with something else. To get elected they must contort their beliefs minimizing they're unpopular positions and expounding on the policies that they believe will gain them votes. This seems dishonest to me. In the end we are led by the dishonest and the compromisers, hardly an ideal situation. Yet over the thousands of years of human history we have found nothing better.

"To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone capable of getting themselves made President should by no means be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. "
-Douglas Adams

Even though this passage was taken from a silly book written solely for entertainment, Mr. Adams has the right of this. Mankinds's fallen nature prevents us from ever escaping tyranny.

Fortunately, there is hope for those who know that one day, we will leave this world and enter a kingdom where the Ruler is perfect, loving and merciful. May that day come soon!