[PEN-L:9371] Re: more requiem

["Jay Hanson mailto:j@xxxxxxxxx" <j@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Max Sawicky writes,
>
>Self-interest pervades all human behavior ..., so I don't see how
>you can imagine a movement which leaders or people in authority did
>not seek to exploit for some narrow purpose. The real question is
>how the process can work to yield constructive reform.

People exhibit a continuum of self-interested behavior
from altruistic to greedy.  Our present private-money-based
political system tends to select those who are the most
self-interested.

If we could get the private money out of our political
system -- both elections and as the result of legislation --
we would get better people in office.


Jay -- http://csf.Colorado.EDU/authors/hanson/
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