Hmmm....
An interesting and useful question I found in my inbox this morning:
"As a student of political economy, the term oligarchy is one I'm familiar with. One of my mentors in class described the major types of government with their opposites as being 1) Monarchy/Tyranny, 2) Aristocracy/Oligarchy,
3) Democracy/Anarchy. The first types he described as being ruled by law, whereas their respective counterparts were ruled by whim. The more I study this, the more I find it to be correct; and it makes me wonder how I rule, or allow to be ruled, my own life.... by whim, or law?"
I know MY life is mostly ruled by whim. The question for me is, how much do I want to change that, and how do I go about it?
"As a student of political economy, the term oligarchy is one I'm familiar with. One of my mentors in class described the major types of government with their opposites as being 1) Monarchy/Tyranny, 2) Aristocracy/Oligarchy,
3) Democracy/Anarchy. The first types he described as being ruled by law, whereas their respective counterparts were ruled by whim. The more I study this, the more I find it to be correct; and it makes me wonder how I rule, or allow to be ruled, my own life.... by whim, or law?"
I know MY life is mostly ruled by whim. The question for me is, how much do I want to change that, and how do I go about it?