Thursday 19 September 2013

The Worst Form of Government

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 11, 1947

And perhaps I agree. There is no better practical method of forming a government.

One would I trust, in all genuineness, accept this point: if there was no government there would be no risk of then having a government full of ineffectiveness, deceit, corruption, infiltration and so on. How could it be if it did not exist?


So if we want to do away with this colossal downside of government we know how that can be done. Get rid of it. The only question then really is: can human society effectively operate without a state of a government.

Years of indoctrination have trained us to utterly and instantly reject this prospect even though, all about us, all the strife and chaos can be drilled down to being as of the result of states and governments.

For the alternative, a stateless society, we have no spoon-fed reference points. We have to think the prospect through, step by step, for ourselves.

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