George Washington's Farewell Address
recognizing the nature of man's heart.
"The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern; some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them." (George Washington Farewell Speech)
"The workers' council [the consensus process, i.e., the soviet] spells the political and economic defeat of reification [serving something that is not real, i.e., the right of parental authority over their children, property, and business (outside of socialist control)]. In the period following the dictatorship it will eliminate the bourgeois [middle-class, i.e., "top-down" authority] separation of the legislature, administration and judiciary." (György Lukács, History & Class Consciousness Class Consciousness)
"Bypassing the traditional channels of top-down decision making, our objective centers upon transform public opinion into an effective instrument of global politics." "Individual values must be measured by their contribution to common interests and ultimately to world interests.... transforming public consensus into one favorable to the emergence of a stable and humanistic world order." "Consensus is both a personal and a political step. It is a precondition of all future steps." (Ervin Laszlo, A Strategy for the Future: The Systems Approach to World Order)
When you start with the premise that man's heart is neither good nor evil but has the potently to becoming good or evil based upon the persons education (upbringing) , i.e., the blank tablet theory, the soviet system (the consensus process) is the only form of government of choice, "of and for" the people.
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9 "Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God." Luke 16:15
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