Die Geschichte der Herrschaft und der Politik war schon immer durchsetzt mit Gräueltaten, Ungerechtigkeit und Vetternwirtschaft. Das Problem ist so alt wie die Menschheit..
Vor 500 Jahren schon hat der französische Philosoph Etienne de La Boetie dieses in seinem Werk "The Politics of obedience" analysiert und kam dabei zu interessanten Schlüssen die bis heute nichts von ihrer Aktualität verloren haben.
I COME NOW to a point which is, in my opinion, the
mainspring and the secret of domination, the support and
foundation of tyranny. Whoever thinks that halberds, sentries,
the placing of the watch, serve to protect and shield tyrants is, in
my judgment, completely mistaken. These are used, it seems to
me, more for ceremony and a show of force than for any reliance
placed in them. The archers forbid the entrance to the palace to
the poorly dressed who have no weapons, not to the well armed
who can carry out some plot. Certainly it is easy to say of the
Roman emperors that fewer escaped from danger by aid of their
guards than were killed by their own archers.18 It is not the
troops on horseback, it is not the companies afoot, it is not arms
that defend the tyrant. This does not seem credible on first
thought, but it is nevertheless true that there are only four or five
who maintain the dictator, four or five who keep the country in
bondage to him. Five or six have always had access to his ear,
and have either gone to him of their own accord, or else have
been summoned by him, to be accomplices in his cruelties,
companions in his pleausres, panders to his lusts, and sharers in
his plunders. These six manage their chief so successfully that he
comes to be held accountable not only for his own misdeeds but
even for theirs. The six have six hundred who profit under them,
and with the six hundred they do what they have accomplished
with their tyrant. The six hundred maintain under them six
thousand, whom they promote in rank, upon whom they confer
the government of provinces or the direction of finances, in order
that they may serve as instruments of avarice and cruelty,
executing orders at the proper time and working such havoc all
around that they could not last except under the shadow of the
six hundred, nor be exempt from law and punishment except
through their influence.
Etienne de La Boetie
THE POLITICS OF OBEDIENCE: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
Daran hat sich bis heute nichts geändert und Entscheidungen solcher Systeme richten sich immer gegen die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung damit die Profite und Sonderrechte für die Systemgewinnler gewährleistet sind. Deshalb ist es meine feste Überzeugung das nur ein Politisches System in dem die Bürgerinnen und Bürger selbst über die Gesetze bestimmen auf Dauer eine tragfähige, gerechte und friedliche Politik möglich macht.
Mfg Makrovir