Mindbloggling

Current ideas about cultural evolution and the creative processes that power it.

by Liane Gabora, Ph.D.

Is Loyalty Destructive?

By Liane Gabora, Ph.D. on December 11, 2011 in Mindbloggling

Elected officials are expected to behave in ways that will enhance the economic prosperity of their municipalities or nations. They are obliged to represent the concerns of those who elected them (not to mention those who pulled the strings that hoisted them to power). To do otherwise would be disloyal. Read More

if you have to ask...

Submitted by bareheadedwoman on September 18, 2012 - 8:44am.

The link in the side bar titles this article as "Can our leaders be relied on?" instead of "Is loyalty destructive?" but the answer is the same: if you have to ask, then you have already answered your question. But in the case of the article title, you would have to define both "loyalty" and "destructive," and which group of what belonged to each.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Who is going to police these watchers if they are the top of the pyramid? We have enough problems policing UN diplomats' sons in the USA, never mind the UN (which thanks to Executive Order # 13547 pretty much IS our government and it's not going well).

I'm no evangelical but the idea of a global body governing all humans by common denominator is the stuff of nightmares. It will be made up of humans after all. You are a psychology professor and you still have that much faith in the goodness of the heart of each and every jack person of humanity? And our vetting processes? How quaint.

The fact that we are still starting wars over resources instead of voluntarily learning to share tells me that being "forced" to share will only work for those with the guns. Perhaps you should look into some other articles here about how narcissists and psychopaths are genera uniquely suited to corporate and political environments and thrive therein? You SURE you want these people deciding what you will and will not do?

Have you never read any Thomas Jefferson? Oh wait...British Columbia. Then brush up on the rise and fall of the Roman Empire or the Holy Roman Empire...or the British Empire for that matter. Remember the Magna Carta? Common Law? We would all be defined as serfs...even you. As long as you played nice, maybe you could be elevated to guild or craft class, being a professional professor and all. We'll be comrades too...since there'll be no "Canada" and no "New York" ...we'll just be one big global concentration camp (NAU?) at the beck and call of whomever is fuhrer of the year.

A global government with a plebeian's best interests at heart is the powers' greatest chimera, right next to a corporation with person-hood.

And like a favorite Quaker cartoon once stated: I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.