--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings <no_reply@> wrote: > > > [...] > > Yes, I have always said that evolution is not the survival of the > > fittest, but the survival of the smartest. However, does that mean > > that smart (or enlightened) people, when they get into power, will > > make democracy obsolete? I doubt it. > > > > Democracies only work when the voters are well-informed, well educated and intelligent. > > Seems to me that the US has pretty much lost all claim to being a democracy.>>>
That is dangerous talk. Go back a couple of hundred years to when women could not vote, blacks could not vote, commoners were lucky to get a vote in most countries, and the majority of people were used as slaves for the industrial revolution machine. You forget too easily how people strived for the right to a vote, and reason was that the rulers abused them. Never in history has a King sacrificed anything for the people, except when forced to. They always looked down on you and used you as a slave. People here have a total misunderstanding of what Maharishi is saying. He is (and always has said) that Brahman is the Charioteer, every person is Royalty, every person is divine being, every person is the Cosmic Administrator, every person in the Ruler of the Universe, every person is a Maharishi. There are no kings and subjects. He has simply been leading people down the garden path with that, in order to have people wake up to their own Godhead. He started with one king, biw there are many. Soon he will announce that every TM teacher is a Ruler, and then he will pass that on to everyone else anyway. That is the way he has always worked it...since the 60's. Democracy is imperfect in the US and elsewhere in some respects, but you can vote, and enough of you can change things. For example, vote for Al Gore (he will stand), he is a TM'r too. OffWorld
