Probably the only natural government, the one that does not need an ideological legitimation, is the feudal system. And all the rest tend to reproduce it in a bastardized way.
That means that wathever the formal gobernment, the human nature tend towards a feudal system of loyalities, towards persons and families rather than a loyality to depersonalized institutions. These loyalities can help or cans subvert the formal ldemocratic regime. That is why the democratic regimes need a form of cult to the founders of the democracy, or else, a monarchy that embodies the loyalities and canalize that loyality from the king to the democratic regime sanctioned by him. For the same reason, the republican democracies need the cult to some withened political figures that symbolize their values. That may or may not work. Some of these loyalities can destroy the formal regime or, more frequently can corrupt or undermine it, so that the formal system hides the real one, which makes use of the formal system for their own purposes. Since this real regime is hidden, it adopt a form of corrupt system, wheren the lawyers, police, media etc don´t execute what the formal law tells but what is adequeate for the hidden loyality system. Normally this last one is the real regime that operates in every so called "democracy" 2014-12-18 11:37 GMT+01:00 Telmo Menezes <[email protected]>: > > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:25 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> "Democracy is the worst system of government ever invented - apart from >> all the others." >> >> Winston Churchill >> > > So why didn't he revolt against his own country's unelected sovereigns? > The fellow was full of contradictions: > > "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with > the average voter." > > Winston Churchill > > >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
