Re: People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others

On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:50:47 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 8/29/2024 12:01 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 8/29/2024 1:47 AM, John B. wrote:

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If I read you correctly your definition of Democracy is a
government
in which each and every decision is decided by the voters,
A bit
cumbersome, isn't it?

 
Yes. That was my point.
 
 

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OK, a kingdom with one unitary monarch is simple.
Simplicity may not be a desirable feature.

And yet it is/was the normal thing for thousands of years :-)

But read up on the subject and you will find that it wasn't, except in
tiny little societies, a matter of one monarch rather it as a matter
of one monarch supported by sufficient strongmen to dominate the
kingdom.

The Battle of Bosworth shows what happened to
Richard III when  Baron Stanley (made Earl of Derby in October), Sir
William Stanley, and Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland. failed
to support him.

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Cheers,

John B.