July 29

Amber pages



1805: Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and advocate for some of the worst stupidities ever adopted by the human race, born today in Paris. What were those stupidities, I mean idealisms:


Egalitarianism

Populism

Liberty

Individualism

Laissez-Faire

Gathered together under the umbrella known as Democracy, that battle of vested-interest groups for short-term power so that they can place the executive inside the legislature and determine its agenda, rather than keeping it separate, and as the afterwards of the legislature, and then use that short-term power to serve the best interests of their vested interest groups, even if that is damaging to the nation as a whole ... surely it is time that we woke up to its stupidity and replaced it with something more intelligent.




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