William F. Buckley famously said that "I would rather be governed by the first 2000 names in the Boston phone book than by the 2000 members of the faculty of Harvard University". As for me, I would rather be governed by the current membership of the American Economic Association than by the millions of people who voted on Tuesday.-EconLog
Suppose we were going to randomly pick a few hundred people to run the country, and you got to choose where we drew the sample from. Would you choose:
a) Ivy League Professors
b) the general populace
c) Economists
d) Politicians
e) Christians
f) the very wealthy
g) ...?
Good timing for this topic, I just finished reading Walden Two.
ReplyDeleteSkinner lays out a fairly ideal society in my opinion. There's no real government per se in Walden Two. Unfortunately we do not have a behaviorial engineering system to encourage society. Most of our education and training focuses on keeping us busy. We do not take the effort to train people to advance society because it is better for everyone.
I would want to be governed by a group of people who are trained to consider society as a whole. I don't think this group will exist anytime in the near future though. I have more to say, but must run...will try to fill in more later.
100 of my clones, because I'm a narcissist.
ReplyDeleteIn reality, I would need to know how these people govern. Is this an Articles of Confederation style government, or are we just laying them down into the Senate seats and abolishing the executive and judiciary branches?