The best political system is a theocracy!
It not only controls public affairs, but also your private affairs.... even if no controlling agent is present, it manages to make you think there is such an agent and keeps you in your best behavior.
Now we need a proper theology for that system to work adequately and forever.
Clearly, the muslim theology is crap, for it trumps the lives of half the population... women.
I have no knowledge of any christian theocracy, but I doubt it would work... if mormonism is any hint of it...
A hindu theocracy?... I don't know...
Buddhist?
Something else? Scientology?
Now, if we wanted to keep within the realm of reality, keep people relatively happy and free to be themselves... within reasonable... thus far, western style democracies, seem to fare quite well. And, if we want to find the most promising, perhaps, look into northern european ones, like Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway... What do these countries have in common? lack of sunlight, leading to a ... or rather, not leading to a leisurely state of mind and "work", so they actually work, or get drunk... or both.
My political philosophy, at the voting booth, is choose the least bad... politicians around here are all crooked...so I try to pick the ones that have stolen the least... I always pick the losers, though...
It not only controls public affairs, but also your private affairs.... even if no controlling agent is present, it manages to make you think there is such an agent and keeps you in your best behavior.
Now we need a proper theology for that system to work adequately and forever.
Clearly, the muslim theology is crap, for it trumps the lives of half the population... women.
I have no knowledge of any christian theocracy, but I doubt it would work... if mormonism is any hint of it...
A hindu theocracy?... I don't know...
Buddhist?
Something else? Scientology?
Now, if we wanted to keep within the realm of reality, keep people relatively happy and free to be themselves... within reasonable... thus far, western style democracies, seem to fare quite well. And, if we want to find the most promising, perhaps, look into northern european ones, like Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway... What do these countries have in common? lack of sunlight, leading to a ... or rather, not leading to a leisurely state of mind and "work", so they actually work, or get drunk... or both.
My political philosophy, at the voting booth, is choose the least bad... politicians around here are all crooked...so I try to pick the ones that have stolen the least... I always pick the losers, though...
