Re: your "next/second cut" below:
Science, Religion, and Culture carry with them no certainty of moral
rectitude.
(Albert Teller, Ian paisley, Woody Allen ... personages most would
regard as
unworthy of moral emulation.)
Better leave one chair for a "sixpack" at the table.
Harv
(an otherwise lurking "sixpack")
Jay Hanson wrote:
>
> From: Eva Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >> It's back to the game manager problem again.
> >>
> >
> >So who decides who takes the role of the gamekeeper and
> >the role of animals?
>
> This is really an interesting problem and I have been thinking about it for
> years. I haven't found anyone willing to discuss it calmly because most
> people become hysterical at the very thought. Here is a very short outline
> of my present thinking:
>
> The problem is how to construct a global political "system" that can remain
> virtuous to its stated goals?
>
> My first cut at the problem is to separate what might work from what would
> be politically acceptable to Joe Sixpack. In other words, I assume there
> would be "internal" politics and an "external" politics. (We probably have
> this kind of system now with Ivy League elites pulling the levers in the
> back room.)
>
> My next cut is to divide the new "internal" system into two more parts:
> "administration" and "policy making".
>
> Policy-making would be done by an elite group of scientists and religious
> and cultural leaders. Administration would be done by computers.
>
> Obviously, working all this stuff out would take an enormous amount of
> effort. I haven't taken the time because I haven't seen any willingness to
> junk the present system.
>
> Jay
