No. Banning the lobbyist won't do a thing in the world other than force industry and special interests to work slightly harder to disguise their bribes and other control methods.
Consider how the freaking BILL OF RIGHTS and the rest of the U.S. CONSTITUTION are blatantly ignored today. The erosion in fidelity to those documents began as the ink was drying on the pages.
Any group "granted" the right to INITIATE coercion will become evil. That was the core of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings -- that POWER, by NAME, is hellishly addictive and impossible to use (even with good intentions) without creating evil. That is because initiating coercion against other human beings is a crime, and calling it "government" does not change that.
America became great in large part because we came the closest, of all large nations, to being free. We "tied government down with the chains of the Constitution." And the result was spectacular, but the method -- i.e., only enslaving the people a LITTLE bit -- was unsound. A little bit of evil is not GOOD, it is just better than a LOT of evil -- but evil always works to expand . . . and here we are, living in an honest-go-God tyranny that grew from our small, highly-restrained government.
LOTR is fiction, but Tolkien's point is real: until we have an actual civil society, we will be unable to prevent the growth and entrenchment of corruption and evil.
No. Banning the lobbyist won't do a thing in the world other than force industry and special interests to work slightly harder to disguise their bribes and other control methods.
Consider how the freaking BILL OF RIGHTS and the rest of the U.S. CONSTITUTION are blatantly ignored today. The erosion in fidelity to those documents began as the ink was drying on the pages.
Any group "granted" the right to INITIATE coercion will become evil. That was the core of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings -- that POWER, by NAME, is hellishly addictive and impossible to use (even with good intentions) without creating evil. That is because initiating coercion against other human beings is a crime, and calling it "government" does not change that.
America became great in large part because we came the closest, of all large nations, to being free. We "tied government down with the chains of the Constitution." And the result was spectacular, but the method -- i.e., only enslaving the people a LITTLE bit -- was unsound. A little bit of evil is not GOOD, it is just better than a LOT of evil -- but evil always works to expand . . . and here we are, living in an honest-go-God tyranny that grew from our small, highly-restrained government.
LOTR is fiction, but Tolkien's point is real: until we have an actual civil society, we will be unable to prevent the growth and entrenchment of corruption and evil.
Not a popular opinion here, I know . . .
My favorite story is LOTR. It just read like history book. It's true.
I know this feel more like communist regime right now.