This didn’t make Facebook’s status limit even with aggressive editing, but it is dedicated to our political system, with love and consternation.
The major problem — one of the major problems, for there are several — one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
Douglas Adams, the pre-eminent social and political philosopher of our times. Right behind Monty Python. Then probably Jon Stewart. With Friedrich Hayek and John Rawls taking a joint and distant fourth.
Happy Towel Day!
