Power corrupts, supporters influence, maintaining power requires favoritism.
A beautifully quick and illustrative video on democracy, socialism and dictatorships is rules for rulers.
- It doesn't tell us how to govern.
- It tells us how not to govern.
- But it indirectly helps us understand the inherent conflicts involved in governing.
- Thus eventually we realize that depending on rulers instead of rules is a road to failure and disappointment.
Rules for rulers
A YouTube Video about political systems
- Explains what we already know to be true.
- Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- History shows this repeatedly and our guts tell us this is true.
- In the Christian-Judeo bible there is a section of the text called Kings, where the God of the Jewish people gave the people rules to live by, and they asked for Kings, instead. God told them Kings were simply humans with great power, and they would be happier to rule themselves using rules. The people insisted and the God of the Christian bible relented but said Be careful what you ask for as you may regret it.
- And regret it we have, as countless good men and women have been corrupted by power, when they were chosen to lead.
- The human record of tragedy, deceit, betrayal and violent persecutions of the common folk and violent overthrow of governments illustrates the difficulty of rulers, and Kings of various names.
- The return to rule by rules, now called trust less systems of code is currently popular. But it will be difficult to achieve. As those in power enjoy privilege and position they pass to their descendents, along with riches and wealth, the very tools to stay in power.
- The challenge I think can be met without revolution or violence, name calling or blame. It can be constructed by mass adoption of systems which enrich the rich without enslaving the poor.
- Systems where the rich can continue to make money and not deal with the poor, middle class or others beneath them financially are possible, because the currently system of extracting wealth has started to implode, so the wealthy are slowly searching out for greener pastures.
- The anonymous nature of cryptocurrency and blockchain can benefit the rich and the poor, as well as the middle class, the poor countries and the rich.
- The opportunities for profit provided by decentralized finance, decentralized lending, decentralized financing and tokenization and fractional ownership are tools all can use.
- Lastly the decentralized distributed nature of these systems and reliance on code, eliminates the corrupting influences of power, and eliminates the need for rulers.The possibility of rule by DAOs which cross countries and continents, with no central authority for governments to control means distribution of the keys of power, and no centralization of power leading to corruption.
