Henrik Mouritsen

Instead of a review, a thought: It is the quality of the political elites that matters, large parts of the population live their lives anyway. This sums up Weber's idea: if the quality of political elites is no better than that of pigs, and the intellectual rectitude and aristocracy resides in the plebs, who are excluded from higher ranks and higher positions, then the whole is misgoverned and the majority falls into neglect and corruption because they have no superior people to govern them. Amusingly, in the "Saturnium Regnum", at least the mockery of this age that turned into "Kali Yuga" by collective ill-will and corrupt status-quo preservation by the "elites", quite a number of potential leaders have been driven insane, destroyed, slandered or involved in corruption, murder and suicide, and the idiots who are easy to control, the mean, the mediocre, the arrogant and the stupid have been elevated - it is easier to control imbeciles and religious morons than people with will, values and strength, but was not the destruction planned beforehand anyway? Compare with the Confucian hydraulic societies, Kautilya's Arthashastra and Kamandaki's "On Politics". I'm whiling my time away before death, my spirit belongs to Gods, since all my thaumaturgic, theurgic efforts were rendered useless and levelled to the ground level of hells, not even mentioning compromising any socio-political influence and reforms that were succintly destroyed before they begun.… (plus d'informations)