Theos-Talk Archives (January 1997 Message tl00282)

On Sat, 11 Jan 97, "Eldon B. Tucker" <eldon@theosophy.com> wrote:

>One thing from the quote above seems slightly funny. According to the
>definition, a theosophical liberal is someone who believes that people
>in theosophical office are so good, and people who are not in theosophical
>office are so helpless without them, that big government is necessary to
>help them get by. And a theosophical conservative is someone who believes
>that the most important issue in theosophical politics is that, since
>power so easily corrupts, no one has too much power, preferring as
>decentralized and limited a government as possible.

How centralized a government should be depends on the size of the society.
A family of four should be highly centralized and cooperative, since
organization of such a small number of people is relatively easy.  The
costs of organizing a nation of tens of millions of people are
proportionally greater, and so it should be more decentralized and
competitive.