I have come to the conclusion that the ideal form of government is a monarchy. This is not to say that I don’t love the United States, I love my country. I would not want to live anywhere else. However if you are going to look at things on a purely potential basis a monarchy has the greatest potential for the most perfect good. The only drawback with this is it also has the greatest potential for the most perfect evil. As a result in order to balance the corrupting powers of human nature, we have to settle for something that is neither fully good, nor fully evil. Walla, democracy is born. Everyone has a say and since we can never agree nothing too terribly good or bad can be accomplished.
Would I rather live in a country were I was persecuted everyday for what I believe? I struggle with this concept. While I personally am not too fond of my life being jeopardized, I’ve certainly seen the disillusionment that can be caused by living in the luke warm. How do you boil a living frog? Increase the temperature one degree at a time. He’ll never know the difference until its too late.
All around me, I see the effects of this diluted truth. We have a real and legitimate problem, racism. Solution: create a requirement that states that you have to hire x number of this minority and y of that. The end result: Many deserving people are given an opportunity that would have otherwise escaped them, and many people are given a job they are not qualified for. As a result we don’t have an absolute evil where people are allowed to be judged by their race. At the same time we don’t have the most perfect situation where the most qualified person is always hired.
This concept is proliferating throughout our society and is found at the basis of most legislative policy that has been created in the last decade. We do not want any child left behind, so students are held back from their potential. We don’t want people to be forced to believe anything, so the concept of God is virtually disallowed from school (Feeding a more anti-God sentiment, but thats another topic). In fear of evil, we have trapped ourselves in mediocrity.
I am not fond of the absolute evils. I understand to prevent the negative we sometimes need to dilute the good. However it seems we are often too quick to take the easy answer that inhibits both good and evil equally, instead of striving for the more perfect solution that might promote a little lighter shade of grey. The end result is a color palette that is looking greyer everyday, and loosing all contrasting nature. It is the dichotomies that keep us balanced and forever looking for pure white.
During monarchy regime the justice comes from the King. But in republic it should come from the people! Viktor Hugo
I like democaracy and think that no other form of government will be good for people!!!!
But, you know, I’d like to try monarchy too and moreover, I’d like to live in the 19th century!! It’s my favourite century!!! 