Alan: On the other side of the coin, absolutists - particularly theocratic absolutists - choose tyranny to avoid democracy.
Democracy is a muddle... and muddle is self-limiting
Theocracy is a horror because God knows no limit and theocrats make themselves in the image of God.
Christian theocracy must end in Armageddon because it's the self-fulfilling prophecy "at the end of the story."
Christian theocracy must end in Armageddon because it's the self-fulfilling prophecy "at the end of the story."
Alan: It is useful to recall Plato's cyclical rotation of governmental forms.
Plato's "Republic":
How Democracy Leads To Tyranny
http://factmyth.com/how-democracy-leads-to-tyranny-from-platos-republic/
Why Did "The Founding Fathers" Choose A Republic?
http://factmyth.com/why-did-the-founding-fathers-choose-a-republic/
Why Did "The Founding Fathers" Choose A Republic?
http://factmyth.com/why-did-the-founding-fathers-choose-a-republic/
For me, the superiority of democracy is that it insures continutation of the muddle.
The inferiority of abolutism is that its nature hurtles toward a "cosmic showdown" in which competing absolutisms eventually seek to annihilate "the other" and in the process annililate human life.
The inferiority of abolutism is that its nature hurtles toward a "cosmic showdown" in which competing absolutisms eventually seek to annihilate "the other" and in the process annililate human life.
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