As anyone who has interacted with a PTA or homeowners' association board will testify, people given power have an innate desire to exercise it. Even if that exercise is irrational, and that person has never acted irrationally before.
Power tends to corrupt (and absolute power corrupts absolutely) -- Lord Acton
As anyone who has interacted with a PTA or homeowners' association board will testify, people given power have an innate desire to exercise it. Even if that exercise is irrational, and that person has never acted irrationally before.
Power tends to corrupt (and absolute power corrupts absolutely) -- Lord Acton
It takes self-actualization to resist this temptation, and our society and education system are no longer creating self-actualized citizens. There's a reason they call it the "Me Generation."
Strange - but - was watching "The Crown" to understand what the heck monarchy is about/like/for - and Edward VIII was "suited" to the throne but hated it (Liked Wallis Simpson better). Much better was George VI, who was speech impaired, unready, unwilling - and yet, became a strong monarch.
He who is unwilling to serve is probably the best candidate.
"Political tags, such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth, are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."
As anyone who has interacted with a PTA or homeowners' association board will testify, people given power have an innate desire to exercise it. Even if that exercise is irrational, and that person has never acted irrationally before.
Power tends to corrupt (and absolute power corrupts absolutely) -- Lord Acton
It takes self-actualization to resist this temptation, and our society and education system are no longer creating self-actualized citizens. There's a reason they call it the "Me Generation."
"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."
~ Lord Acton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2wNEbG_OHE
Strange - but - was watching "The Crown" to understand what the heck monarchy is about/like/for - and Edward VIII was "suited" to the throne but hated it (Liked Wallis Simpson better). Much better was George VI, who was speech impaired, unready, unwilling - and yet, became a strong monarch.
He who is unwilling to serve is probably the best candidate.
"Political tags, such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth, are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."
~ Robert Heinlein
Absolutely.
I’m afraid so.