Monday, June 18, 2012

Canada: The Best of Both Words

Title refers to the 2nd point.
DEMOCRACY
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved. 
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. 
Democratic republics can no more dispense with national idols than monarchies with public functionaries. 
Government presents only one problem: the discovery of a trustworthy anthropometric method.
From George Bernard Shaw's Maxims for Revolutionists

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