Thanks for noting the importance of Tunisia. (As well as for being one of my many many teachers, Lev, for i'm a Learner.)
It had been a while since last I heard that juxtaposition: the love of power vs the power of love. We humans seem to delight in finding opposites and here in the U.S. the dominant culture seems to obsess over "what is best".
Most (male) militaries that i have heard of do not operate themselves by democratic means for reasons that serve the military purpose. However, various persons who, consentually, operate in a top-down pyramidal power structure may nonetheless themselves be pro-democracy for civil society. Whether such thinkers (aka everybody with a brain) are able to think "outside the box" or "beyond the (horse) blinkers" is as you say, genuinely interesting.
I'm off to post to IUUJ around the power of love. ttyl. wishing you a lovely Sunday evening, sir, oops afternoon your time, since it's early morning where i am on our shared spinning globe. namaste
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the power of love & towards democracy
Date: 2011-02-13 02:13 pm (UTC)It had been a while since last I heard that juxtaposition: the love of power vs the power of love. We humans seem to delight in finding opposites and here in the U.S. the dominant culture seems to obsess over "what is best".
Most (male) militaries that i have heard of do not operate themselves by democratic means for reasons that serve the military purpose. However, various persons who, consentually, operate in a top-down pyramidal power structure may nonetheless themselves be pro-democracy for civil society. Whether such thinkers (aka everybody with a brain) are able to think "outside the box" or "beyond the (horse) blinkers" is as you say, genuinely interesting.
I'm off to post to IUUJ around the power of love. ttyl. wishing you a lovely Sunday evening, sir, oops afternoon your time, since it's early morning where i am on our shared spinning globe. namaste