Friday, November 20, 2015
Oh. My. Goodness.
"I can balance the budget twice as well as my opponent,
because once a budget is balanced, it cannot be bal-
anced any better. From a mathematical perspective, the
size (and hence the appeal) of a falsehood can be in-
flated by saying that 2 + 2 = 5, or 7, or even 27, but the
size of the truth can never be inflated by saying any-
thing more than 2 + 2 = 4.
Because the size of falsehood and favoritism can be
inflated and the truth cannot, corrupt politicians can
attract more supporters for the same amount of effort.
A corrupt politician can promise more, evoke false
enemies more, push the fear hot button more, pursue
wrong priorities more, and use more favoritism than a
virtuous politician can. The result is the race to the
bottom is normally the dominant loop. Thus the reason
that “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts
absolutely” 10 is not so much that power itself corrupts,
but that the surest means to power requires corruption."
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
Pursuit of power lends itself to all sorts of unusual behaviour and many people end up throwing out normal base values. Always interested to watch politicians when asked if they want to be the leader. As sure as the sun comes up each day every single person in parliament has dreams of sitting in the top seat.
I have no aspirations with regard the chairmanship of ES :-)
Have you read the article I've directed Dave to? It's a stunner.
Post a Comment