Crowell’s First Rule of Governement
I’d thought about writing about about politics before but at first, I never got around to it. Later, I actually hesitated because I thought if I put my beliefs out there, I could have some backlash for it. Thinking about it further, I can see no valid reasons for backlash against someone’s political stance, unless they are encouraging violence or some other evil. Rather it seems to me that if more people really thought about what they believed in, and if their representatives are reflective of those beliefs, that politics in general would likely be a better place.
With that in mind I’m going to post my First Rule of Government, which is very likely echoed somewhere else though I’m not aware of where.
1. Crowell’s First Rule of Government – You cannot trust the government.
Isn’t that really the core of what the Constitution is about? The whole reason for the need of checks and balances is so that you can have a system which is full of flawed humans, but still will operate as close to fairly as possible.
I think there’s a corollary to this: you cannot trust people.
I don’t mean that as a whole, or as individuals. But I do mean that as a group, and especially in parties and organizations. The cause of this what Nietzsche had in mind when he said:
Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule.
With that in mind, I think that belief spills into my main concept of economics. Once again this has probably been stated before by someone more eloquently that I, nevertheless:
1. Crowell’s First Rule of Economics – Competition is the Key Factor for Driving Efficiency.
This outcome really relates to my thought on the government. What keeps people honest is competition, whether it be in business or in politics. When you get collusion, conspiracy, nepotism, etc, you are eroding that efficiency.