Two for the price of one, this week:
"No one is fit to be trusted with power. ... No one. ... Any man who has lived at all knows the follies and wickedness he's capable of. ... And if he does know it, he knows also that neither he nor any man ought to be allowed to decide a single human fate."
C. P. Snow
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Quote of the week
Long time since I've done one of these:
"When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion"
C. P. Snow
"When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion"
C. P. Snow
Monday, 3 May 2010
Why nobody will get my vote
There are six candidates in my constituency, all of them belong to political parties, as they belong to a party, I have to wonder whether their loyalty will be to the local community that elected them, or to the party that selected them.
I believe that far from having the solution to our problems, political parties are part of the problem, and as long as they are part of our system nothing will change - it is simply not in their interest for it to do so.
We do not live in a democracy we live in an elective oligarchy, to be fair it is an open oligarchy these days, but it is still an oligarchy. All power is centralised in the state and its bureaucracy, and that state and its bureaucracy has a vested interest in maintaining itself even at the expense of those whom it claims to represent.
As long as power is distributed from the centre we will not have true democracy. We need to develop a system where power is vested in the local community and, where needed, those communities come together to share power at a higher level.
The only question for me is this, do I go and spoil my ballot, or just not bother at all?
I believe that far from having the solution to our problems, political parties are part of the problem, and as long as they are part of our system nothing will change - it is simply not in their interest for it to do so.
We do not live in a democracy we live in an elective oligarchy, to be fair it is an open oligarchy these days, but it is still an oligarchy. All power is centralised in the state and its bureaucracy, and that state and its bureaucracy has a vested interest in maintaining itself even at the expense of those whom it claims to represent.
As long as power is distributed from the centre we will not have true democracy. We need to develop a system where power is vested in the local community and, where needed, those communities come together to share power at a higher level.
The only question for me is this, do I go and spoil my ballot, or just not bother at all?
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