Caroline, thanks for reminding me to look up Plato, democracy and The Republic.
http://facultyfiles.frostburg....
"He had no faith in the rule of the rich, nor any confidence in the ability of ordinary citizens to run a city like Athens. The rich, as he saw, had mostly their special interests in mind, and during the time of their short-lived regimes they had shown to what length they could go to defend the advantages of the few against the majority of ordinary people. But the rule by the many was no remedy for the ills of oligarchy, according to Plato, because ordinary people were too easily swayed by the emotional and deceptive rhetoric of ambitious politicians."
"An oligarchy is said to be that in which the few and the wealthy, and a democracy that in which the many and the poor are the rulers," as Aristotle put it in his Politics. "
"There is no chance for things to become better unless knowledge and reason are put in command"
"Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, … cities will never have rest from their evils,”
Yes, but HOW can we give power only to those who would use it wisely, and keep it out of the hands of those who would use it selfishly, unwisely and self-destructively?
I vote to put Dave and Trish in charge of everything.
