--- In [email protected], "jyouells2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], bob_brigante <no_reply@> > > wrote: > > > > > > What MMY and the TMO holds up as a guide to the ideal form of > > > administration is The Ramayana, which recounts how Lord Rama > > > ruled at Ayodha for ~11,000 years some two million years ago. > > > > In other words, a fairytale. > > > > Figures. > > > Haven't seen any Lord Ramas around to provide enlightened > leadership. Even in the guru business, the enlightened have had a > tough time. And that's a limited leadership role. We've had > Muktananda, Maharishi, Swami Rama, Adi Da etc. They've tended to > crash and burn at some point as a group. Maybe term limits? Ya, > that's the ticket...
Granting your point above--and others along the same lines having to do with the unlikelihood of practical implementation --it seems to me the original point Bob was making has been overlooked, which was that when MMY advocates "enlightened dictatorship," he may not have in mind anything even remotely resembling what we think of when we hear the word "dictatorship." We tend to have something of a knee-jerk reaction to any phrase including the word "dictatorship" because the only examples we know about of such governance are so repellent. We seem therefore to be assuming that MMY's proposal can be nothing other than repellent and dump on him for even suggesting such a thing--when he may not be suggesting anything like what we imagine. Again, whether it makes any *practical* sense is really a different issue. 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/
