{"id":1224,"date":"2019-02-01T18:19:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T18:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2021-11-30T20:45:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T20:45:34","slug":"why-is-the-world-enamored-by-the-leader-principle-except-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/01\/why-is-the-world-enamored-by-the-leader-principle-except-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the world enamored by the Leader principle (except Switzerland)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A single person in any capacity of making decisions is subject to advancing his own self-interest, subject to bribery, and subject to threats. Let us call this &#8220;corruption.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I advance the following claim.<\/p>\n<p><b>If it is possible for a leader to be corrupted, he will be corrupted.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is just a rephrasing of the old adage that power tends to corrupt.<\/p>\n<p>The ancient world of the Greeks and Romans knew this, and called a single leader a &#8220;dictator.&#8221; To offset this evil, Sparta had two kings, while the Roman Republic had two consuls &#8212; with veto powers over each other.<\/p>\n<p>So why is it that everywhere in the world, we democratically give power to dictators?<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"356\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/roman-consul-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/roman-consul-1.jpg 356w, https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/roman-consul-1-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 85vw, 356px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"207\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/sparta-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1238\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A single person in any capacity of making decisions is subject to advancing his own self-interest, subject to bribery, and subject to threats. Let us call this &#8220;corruption.&#8221; I advance the following claim. If it is possible for a leader to be corrupted, he will be corrupted. This is just a rephrasing of the old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/01\/why-is-the-world-enamored-by-the-leader-principle-except-switzerland\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why is the world enamored by the Leader principle (except Switzerland)?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bullshit-institutions","category-political-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}