Subject:      Power  (was Re: Letter to D. Miscavige)
From:         Julie Mayo <julie.mayo@lightlink.com>
Date:         1996/05/18
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On 30 Apr 1996 00:00:17 -0700, jimbo@sonic.net (Jim Bianchi) wrote:

>Julie Mayo (mayo@lightlink.com) wrote:
>
>: On 21 Apr 1996 13:08:09 -0700, jimbo@sonic.net (Jim Bianchi) wrote:
>
>: >	Lord Acton said: "Power corrupts and absolute power tends to 
>: > corrupt absolutely." Seems to me the goal of a group truly acting 
>: > to better the lot of humanity would be to diminish corruption by 
>: > spreading any power around as much as possible.  
>
>: Can you give me examples of this working in the past?
>
>	Julie. I don't really know as it has specifically been tried as
>such, but the Swiss militia system comes to mind. Most all adult Swiss
have
>firearms readily to hand and are trained in military affairs. Switzerland
>has a relatively small standing army. It's been a long time since
>Switzerland has been successfully invaded. Sure, geography and the
position
>of Switzerland as a major banking center has a lot to do with, but still..
 
>
>	However, this can get off topic Really Fast, so I'll just say that I
>don't *think* it has ever been tried as a matter of policy of any big
group
>(nation, large corp, whatever). Which doesn't mean it is invalid, just
that
>it has never been tried as an official policy. Prob because the founders
of
>any large corp or nation are too busy accreting power to themselves to
want
>to distribute it. (cf. Hubbard!)

Jim, you missed the obvious test case:  ars.

How do you think it is doing?

Will it degenerate to clam hood or cult hood?  barbarism?

or,

Will collective intelligence be raised?
(my choice) 

Julie Mayo


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