Misgovernment is of four types and often a mixture of all four types:
1) Tyranny with cruelty and pressure, which history is so full of famous examples, there is no need to mention the evidence.
) excessive ambition, such as Athens’ efforts to conquer Sicily in the Peloponnesian War with Philip II’s efforts to conquer England relying on his war fleet, or Germany’s two attempts to dominate Europe following the self-made idea of racial supremacy or struggle Japan to form a kind of Asian empire;
3) Incompetence or degeneration, such as the story of the ancient Roman Empire, and the last Romanov tsars of Russia and the last dynasty of the Chinese Empire.
4) And finally, lack of wisdom or insistence in Kjandishi. This book is about the latter aspect, i.e. following policies that are against the interests of the people and the country:
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Edmund Burke slammed partial sovereignty – or acceptance as it is called today – and said with the words that echoed in the corridors of time: “They say that our dignity and honor depends on it.” This dignity and honor has become a terrible thing for you, because recently it has been in conflict with your interests, with your fairness and with any thought in your politics.
This “terrible plague” has plagued politicians for centuries. Benjamin Franklin, that wise man and one of the few people who got the principles from political experience and could articulate them, wrote in the crisis of the Stamp Act, it should not be thought that “by persisting in a wrong action” dignity and honor It is better preserved than by fixing the error to discover it.
Whenever personal profit is considered superior to collective interests, whenever individual ambition and temptation and the charm of power orientation become the guide of politics, public interests will inevitably be destroyed.
Man apparently shows incompetence in government more than any other field of human activity.
Every successful revolution in the course of time becomes the autocrat that it overthrew. Why not come out? The victors, who are former victims, consider their work justified.
America’s stupidity in Vietnam was not that it pursued a goal in ignorance, it was stupidity in insisting on an unattainable goal.
The extract of dry brain has been expressed by one of the historians in a statement about Philip II, the king of Spain and the head of the one-toothed and dry-brained crown princes: the experience of any failure did not weaken his faith in the inherent superiority of his policy.
Machiavelli says that Shahryar should always be the biggest questioner and the most patient listener of the truth about the things he asked about, and if he sees that someone hesitates to tell him the truth, he should get angry. Government needs great questioners.
Barbara Tuckman
The history of stupidity
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