| National Security and Double Government; noble lies |
May. 2nd, 2016|01:42 pm |
Volters Bedžets (Bagehot), inčīgs karakters.
Bijis The Economist redaktōrs, gan jau ne tikai tāpēc, ka sievastēs to lapeli dibijājis.
http://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Glennon-Final.pdf
These dual institutions, one for show and the other for real, afford Britain expertise and experience in the actual art of governing while at the same time providing a façade that generates public acceptance of the experts’ decisions. Bagehot called this Britain’s “double government.”
The structural duality, some have suggested, is a modern reification of the “Noble Lie” that, two millennia before, Plato had thought necessary to insulate a state from the fatal excesses of democracy and to ensure deference to the golden class of efficient guardians.
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