--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The reason [Maharishi] doesn't like democracies is that he doesn't consider > the > common man qualified to have a say in governmental policy. He thinks that > individuals should just concern themselves with their individual lives and > leave the big government stuff to those whose dharma qualifies them to > manage it.
This argument is hundreds of years old. I just finished reading a book review related to it in The New Yorker. (http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/) An excerpt: "As [Noah] Webster saw it, democracy is rule by the people and the people are, generally, insufferable idiots. "'Give the people the power, and they are all tyrants as much as Kings,' he wrote. 'They are even more tyrannical; as they are less restrained by a sense of propriety or by principles of honor; more under the control of violent passions, exasperated by envy and hatred of the rich; stimulated to action by numbers; and subject to no responsibility.'" Webster wrote this in 1837. I guess it's no surprise that Maharishi's political theories go back centuries. His model is Vedic society, which is what, tens of thousands of years old? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
