HAL_9000 wrote:
Does it seem to anyone else like politics mimics evolution at some level?
It depends on the political model.
EVOLUTION is to say that natural selection yields a more highly evolved specimen over time.
This is not so with politics. More often than not, DEVOLUTION is what you get.
The Founding Fathers created a REPUBLIC. This type of government allows for change via complex and slow processes to prevent society reconstructing the government on momentary whims. We were not handed a DEMOCRACY because history proves that democracies are short-lived. As soon as people realize a simple majority can vote themselves graft from the public treasury, they can be swayed with promises of something for nothing, the least capable rise into power, and the nation essentially drives itself into the ground.
Man, left to his own devices, cannot make a better society over time unless deliberate safeguards are put in place and vigilantly defended against the inclination of mob rule by the unwashed masses. Those with the wisdom to lead via long-term plans and preserving fundamental freedoms and liberties for future generations should be deciding what gets done, not people out to make a quick short-term gain at the cost of future viability.
In fact, this really says that politics that yield positive results over time mimic the theory of INTELLIGENT DESIGN, and the improvement of society comes by an outside force compelling positive development rather than letting nature run its course to appease the path of least resistance.
Destroying a society is easy. Building one is hard.
22 May 2009, 10:39 am
