Jack
You take the cake.
As you may have guessed my real name is not Walt, or Santa: It's God.
Has been since birth. That's why I have resorted to this little
deception. I have to go shopping for a few eons and I have to find
someone with the expertise to run things while I am away.
You are Him.
Let's say you are the world's first Acting Chief Executive Officer
(ACEO).
I see that you have a firm grasp of history and that should be a bonus
for humanity. And being from New Mexico you will have plenty of
experience with sand. As of midnight tonight you can start ordering
people about, and sending plagues of locusts at will. Don't mung things
up; I have a finely tuned machine operating here. Listen to the
fanatics. By the way - you are now immortal, that will help. See you
in about 74-76 billion years.
I'll send you a postcard when I arrive
God
PS: Get those principles engraved in stone so we don't forget them
again ! And see to it they are taught in real schools this time.
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Jack Betterly wrote:
Name the 10 most important democratic principles.
1. All authority must come from the people.
2. This does not matter if they do not know, or care, what is going on.
3. That is why there has never been a democracy.
4. The secret has always been to create oligarchies in which a very
tiny, hereditary knot of embarrassedly wealthy people rules, and calls
it a democracy.
5. If these "demogarchies" are facing exposure, go to war, and invest
in that war.
6. Tell young people that wars are the way you get to college because
armies are prep schools.
7. Any voting that manages to slip through must be done by machine.
8. Own Congress.
9. Own the Supreme Court.
10. Should any critic fault the oligarchy, the oligarchy has the
classic right of habeas corpus; "to have his or her body."
I learned these in the School of Hard Knocks. Do I get a prize?
- Jack
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"A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He
knew the facts of the case."
- Finley Peter Dunne
Jack Betterly, World History Association
Book Review Editorial Board, World History Connected
6350 Eubank Boulevard NE, Apt. #1013
Albuquerque, NM 87111 E-mail: [log in to unmask]
The greatest obstacle to the formation of a self-rule government, are
those who claim it already exists.
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