Thursday, August 22, 2013
Guide to Synergy Sites
Guide
to Synergy Sites
The
questions that these sites approximately and virtually encounter is
how ancient wisdom can be applied to modern political economies;
- Can traditions such as Sufi, Platonist, Stoicism, guide us as how to model social behavior?
- Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the new Millennium is a book of philosophical thought written by the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso published by Little, Brown/Abacus Press in 1999. (ISBN 0-349-11443-9)
- Reason and the scientific methods are the critical elements in the enlightenment from 500 years ago and define the character of the modern world.
- However, “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” the dream-time – gates to the old brain that is as animals think – we can call id
- Id, ego and super-ego are the three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche; According to this model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends sex and death; the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego.[1] The super-ego can stop you from doing certain things that your id may want you to do.[2] Civilization and its discontents –
- Myths and old stories are the shadow of dream-time and in Plato's tale of the cave of shadows
- Modern marketing includes policy, politicians, value making, seeing things, hearing things, that give magical powers to the shades of past and future ghosts. And spirits.
Guide
to Synergy Sites
The
questions that these sites approximately and virtually encounter is
how ancient wisdom can be applied to modern political economies;
- Can traditions such as Sufi, Platonist, Stoicism, guide us as how to model social behavior?
- Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the new Millennium is a book of philosophicalthought written by the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso published by Little, Brown/Abacus Press in 1999. (ISBN 0-349-11443-9)
- Reason and the scientific methods are the critical elements in the enlightenment from 500 years ago and define the character of the modern world.
- However, “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” the dream-time – gates to the old brain that is as animals think – we can call id
- Id, ego and super-ego are the three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche; According to this model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends sex and death; the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego.[1] The super-ego can stop you from doing certain things that your id may want you to do.[2] Civilization and its discontents –
- Myths and old stories are the shadow of dream-time and in Plato's tale of the cave of shadows
- Modern marketing includes policy, politicians, value making, seeing things, hearing things, that give magical powers to the shades of past and future ghosts. And spirits.
How to read and learn from the enlightenment texts.. skim, wander, it is not linear but goes in circles around and builds upon itself, as life is lived not as a band marching but as a traveler wandering and asking for directions. The themes repeat as in a symphony, music of the spheres, poems and lessons, structured as is the St. Benedict's mass and the book of common prayer. Socrates didn't write a cookbook because the recipes change with people and conditions . Rule books, instructions, are bad for the mind and spirit, freedom in chains. So let us have a conversation, asking questions and discovering our own truth in our own way. The truth is out there but can not be canned (tinned) - dialogues please
1.) Welcome, come to me all that are heavy laden
2.) we make a commitment to love thy god with all our heart, mind and spirit and above all to love each other as yourself as in the unconditionally love of the lord, this is the law above all laws for on the night of our death
3.)if we believe in a creed and great mystery - lessons, prayer of the people and sermons
4.) for on that night of death and suffering,
5.) we are given a new life; in the manson of our father, here is the
6.) gift of food and drink of resurrection and eternal life
7.) my soul lives, hosanna in the highest for the love that passes all understanding will go with you always hallelujah
Now that sells for 15 centuries...
What DO THESE PEOPLE HAVE IN COMMON?
"V. S." Naipaul's Trinidad, Rumi's poems can be heard in churches, synagogues, Zen monasteries, Edward Bernays, Freud's brother in law, zen master of advertising, PR, and Propaganda, Edward Deming quality control circles, GURDJEF, fourth way, The last wave; the themes are in this film: The nature of socialization - the dream land - subconscious and the reality of the magic powers of belief; shaking a bone at a true believer causes death, a super strong placebo effect.
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Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment [Paperback]
Paul R. Ehrlich (Author), John P. Holdren (Author), Anne H. Ehrlich (Author)
This is the legion on the birth of Civilization:
It began thousands of years ago in monasteries high in the Hindu highland or Kush. Pāriyātra Parvata(Sanskrit: पारियात्र पर्वत) or Paropamisadae (Greek: Παροπαμισάδαι), is an 800 km (500 mi) long mountain range that stretches between central Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.The highest point in the Hindu Kush is Tirich Mir (7,708 m or 25,289 ft) in Chitral District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
The monks over the centuries, had developed a practice of enlightenment. This involved being free of the passions and attachments to self and becoming a part of the cosmos.
They discovered this gave them powers over the elements of human life dependent on external reinforcements. Since they were free of social constraints they could do things, think things, make things, using the laws of the universe as practical possibilities.
The skills were grown by practices, a set of exercises and lessons somewhat similar to mystics and cults such as that founded by the Jesuits, being highly and clearly aware of the present, but not of the world, free of emotions, conscious and unconscious. They developed a management and personal development training program, offered at ransom prices to the princes of the area. The graduates were very successful and kings and superiors came from all the way from China and Mesopotamia, Egypt and then went home and founded the ancient Civilizations.
The rulers could become masters of Sufi propaganda and marketing still used in our time by Bernay. Propaganda by Edward Bernays (Author) , Mark Crispin Miller (Introduction) Crystallizing Public Opinion by Edward Bernays Paperback $10.83
Propaganda Bernays・honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies.
Noam Chomsky
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”—Edward Bernays, Propaganda
WHAT DO THESE PEOPLE HAVE IN COMMON?
"V. S." Naipaul, Rumi's poems can be heard in churches, synagogues, Zen monasteries, Edward Bernays, Propaganda, Edward Deming quality control groups, GURDJEF, The fourth way, the last wave; the themes isn this film are: The nature of socialization - the dreamland (deep sub consciousness) hypnotism- and the reality of the magic power of traditional beliefs; both white middle class or aboriginal.
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To Sigmund Freud, Bernays was the brother of his wife, and father of advertizing sciences and PR public relations. Bernays applied Freudian depth psychology to techniques used in the manipulation of the libidos and ids of the masses, for the greater power of commercial and political interests.
These Lies and half truths appeal to Unreasonable passions, that are the foundations of modern civilizations; capitalist and socialist. Sex and violence, us and them, death wishes, transference, rationalization, sublimation, frustration, repression, subconscious, Oedipus complex, phallic symbols, collective conscientious, archetypes, interpretation of dreams , Friedan slips, all in selling the product be it a president or a fast car, or financial service, or a public policy, a war and, military industrial complex, a happy pill, beer, cigarettes, religions and popular entertainments.
Civilization
and its discontents
"Grateful
Dead"
"We
now return our souls to the creator, as we stand on the edge of
eternal darkness.
"Let
our chant fill the void in order that others may know.In the land of
the night the ship of the sun is drawn by the grateful dead."
-- Egyptian Book of the dead shows the way on the path of life, how Souls that by the way of their living gave power to future life which then returns to be grateful that their lives turned out to have meaning after all.
Revelation 9.6 "During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them."
I was told that that referred to the 'grateful' dead -- those that when death finally arrived, were so thankful for it that they welcomed it with open arms.The name "Grateful Dead" was chosen from a dictionary. Some claim it was a Funk & Wagnalls, others, the Bardo Thodol (Tibetan Book Of the Dead), but according to Phil Lesh, in his biography (pp. 62), "...Jer (Garcia) picked up an old Britannica World Language Dictionary...(and)...In that silvery elf-voice he said to me, 'Hey, man, how about the Grateful Dead?'" The definition there was "A song meant to show a lost soul to the other side." [15] According to the Garcia biography, Captain Trips by Sandy Troy, the band was smoking the psychedelic DMT at the time.
Greed
and fear
Thus the difference between tribes, peoples, nations and “Civilizations” is that the leaders in civilized cultures are not subject to traditional law and beliefs themselves, not to the cultural fads but the other way around, they can manufacture and use the law where traditions of magical thinking becoming tools of economic and political power.
This takes a mind with compartments – where cogitative dissonance become comfortable and skillful. They have to work with people where they are, use what tools they have while being awake to the really real...
Traditional leaders are representatives of ancient belief and completely bond up in history, superstitious magic and mythology. Thus the church is not civilized but a cult or tribe.
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RE:
Arrogant and foolish:
Behaviorist:
if it can't be measured it does't exist
I have false pride and am immensely stupid. I believe that my pathetic ideas are a authentic representation of reality. How could my shallow thoughts reflect the order of nature itself. How could my thoughts comprehend the true nature of life, physics, the cosmos, time, and even my own being. To think my ideas are reality, is indeed most arrogant and foolish. It is said that the beginning of wisdom is awareness of ones ignorance. I am worse than rocks, than beasts and savages because I try to impose my foolishness on the world.
False
materialism
As we are to deal with meaning, let us begin with a paradigm: viz., that sacred symbols, the Geist that functions to synthesize a people's ethos--the tone, character, and quality of their life, its moral and aesthetic style and mood --and their world view--the picture they have of the way things in sheer actuality are, their most comprehensive ideas of order. In religious belief and practice a group's ethos is rendered intellectually reasonable by being shown to represent a way of life ideally adapted to the actual state of affairs the world view describes, while the world view is rendered emotionally convincing by being presented as an image of an actual state of affairs peculiarly well-arranged to accommodate such a way of life.
This confrontation and mutual confirmation has two fundamental effects. On the one hand, it collectivizes moral and aesthetic preferences by depicting them as the imposed conditions of life implicit in a world with a particular structure, as mere common sense given the unalterable shape of reality. On the other, it supports these received beliefs about the world's body by invoking deeply felt moral and aesthetic sentiments as experiential evidence for their truth. Religious symbols formulate a basic congruence between a particular style of life and a specific (if, most often, implicit) metaphysical, and in so doing sustain each with the borrowed authority of the other.
Religion has marketed itself with cliches platitudes, truisms, banal slogans that works so well in advertising. The church has fought the modern world since the renaissance and Galileo. “The 13th century was good and leave us alone to rule in peace” .
Tiger
ego above
dragon
id & libado below
Culture
vs Civilization
-
All
humans have a culture, language, manners, social relationships, myths
– except those raised by wolves – or as the saying goes for those
without manners “were you raised in a barn?” I worked, a thousand
times, with my children on how to hold a fork, the three words,
please, thank you, I'm sorry. Manners taught by bears in childcare
books on how to maintain their culture taught to me by my parents and
their parents back in the mist of times lost. So they could have tea
in the palace.
This
is the legion on the birth of Civilization:
The
fourth way:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi#TeachingsWay of the monk (brown)
of the mystic (green)
of the magician - faker (red)
Fourth way of the sufi:
"According to this scheme the Qur'an has four levels of meaning corresponding to the four realms of existence [for as-Simnani: Lahut, Jabarut, Malakut and Nasut]. The exoteric dimension the Qur'an relates to the
Human Realm,
the esoteric level to the secrets of the Realm of Sovereignty,
the limit of the Qur'an to the Realm of Omnipotence,
and the point of ascent to the Realm of Divinity. " (Elias, TC, pg. 108)
Shahram Shiva asserts that "Rumi is able to verbalize the highly personal and often confusing world of personal growth and development in a very clear and direct fashion. He does not offend anyone, and he includes everyone.... Today Rumi's poems can be heard in churches, synagogues, Zen monasteries, as well as in the downtown New York art/performance/music scene."
According to Professor Majid M. Naini,[64] "Rumi's life and transformation provide true testimony and proof that people of all religions and backgrounds can live together in peace and harmony. Rumi’s visions, words, and life teach us how to reach inner peace and happiness so we can finally stop the continual stream of hostility and hatred and achieve true global peace and harmony.”
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It began thousands of years ago in monasteries high in the Hindu highland or Kush. Pāriyātra Parvata(Sanskrit: पारियात्र पर्वत) or Paropamisadae (Greek: Παροπαμισάδαι), is an 800 km (500 mi) long mountain range that stretches between central Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.The highest point in the Hindu Kush is Tirich Mir (7,708 m or 25,289 ft) in Chitral District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
The
monks over the centuries, had developed a practice of enlightenment.
This involved being free of the passions and attachments to self and
becoming a part of the cosmos. They discovered this gave them powers
over the elements of human life dependent on external reinforcements.
Since they were free of social constraints they could do things,
think things, make things, using the laws of the universe as
practical possibilities.
The
skills were grown by practices, a set of lessons somewhat similar to
mystics and cults such as that founded by the Jesuits, being highly
and clearly aware of the present, but not of the world, free of
emotions, conscientious and unconscious. They developed a management
and personal development training program, offered at ransom prices
to the princes of the area. The graduates were very successful and
kings and superiors came from all the way from China and Mesopotamia,
Egypt and then went home and founded the ancient Civilizations. The
rulers could become masters of Sufi propaganda and marketing still
used in our time by Bernay. Propaganda Paperbackby Edward Bernays (Author) , Mark Crispin Miller (Introduction)
Crystallizing Public Opinion by Edward Bernays Paperback $10.83
Propaganda Bernays・honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies. Noam Chomsky
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”—Edward Bernays, Propaganda
To
Sigmund Freud, Bernays was the brother of his wife, who used the deep
psychology with tools that could be used to manipulate the libido and
id of the masses, to the greater power of commercial and political
interests that are the foundations of civilization.
Thus
the difference between tribes, peoples, nations and “Civilizations”
is that leaders in civilized cultures are not subject to mass
traditional beliefs, but the other way around, they can manufacture
and use traditions and magical thinking as tools of power.
Traditional
leaders are representatives of ancient belief and completely bond up
in history and superstitious magic and mythology. Thus the church is
not a civilized tribe.
If
it were not abortion, it would be other wing nut issues
Magic
Science and Religion: And Other Essays, by Bronislaw Malinowski.
Selected,
and with an Introduction by Robert Redfield
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=magic+science&btnG=
Death
and Rebirth of Seneca
Anthony
Wallace
Knopf
Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 1, 2010 -Knopf
Doubleday Publishing Group,
Sep
1, 2010
-
History
-
416
pages
This
book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation
history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his
visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American
Indian society that he and his followers achieved in the years around
1800.
This
book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation
history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his
visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American
Indian society -
When
people in groups face serious changes in the paradigms they live by
and are threaten in their essence that make a culture what it
fundamentally is, and without which it loses its identity. The white
southern men of the 都ilent
majority・of
the ongoing culture wars against lberals・and
secularization, integration, feminism, the counter culture, the rise
of scientific methods over the traditional authority of religion.“You peasants can't handle the truth”
See The Grand Inquisitor is a parable told in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879・880). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Inquisitor
As we are to deal with meaning, let us begin with a paradigm: viz., that sacred symbols, the Geist that functions to synthesize a people's ethos--the tone, character, and quality of their life, its moral and aesthetic style and mood --and their world view--the picture they have of the way things in sheer actuality are, their most comprehensive ideas of order. In religious belief and practice a group's ethos is rendered intellectually reasonable by being shown to represent a way of life ideally adapted to the actual state of affairs the world view describes, while the world view is rendered emotionally convincing by being presented as an image of an actual state of affairs peculiarly well-arranged to accommodate such a way of life.
This
confrontation and mutual confirmation has two fundamental effects. On
the one hand, it collectivizes moral and aesthetic preferences by
depicting them as the imposed conditions of life implicit in a world
with a particular structure, as mere common sense given the
unalterable shape of reality. On the other, it supports these
received beliefs about the world's body by invoking deeply felt moral
and aesthetic sentiments as experiential evidence for their truth.
Religious symbols formulate a basic congruence between a particular
style of life and a specific (if, most often, implicit) metaphysical,
and in so doing sustain each with the borrowed authority of the
other.
Religion
has marketed itself with cliches platitudes, truisms, banal slogans
that works so well in advertising. The church has fought the modern
world since the renaissance and Galileo. “The 13th
century
was good and leave us alone to rule in peace” .
Religion
has marketed itself with cliches platitudes, truisms, banal slogans
that works so well in advertising. The church has fought the modern
world since the renaissance and Galileo. “The 13th century was good
and leave us alone to rule in peace” .
Science,
magic, superstition and finding answers:
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The
natural human desire to find explanations underlies both science and
magic. People like or need to find reasons for what is going on.
Anthropologist found that tribes will use evidence and facts when
they have them. They are very material and practical. They also have
magical solutions to everyday problems when there are no better
alternatives. Questions of weather, animal migration, disease and
other natural phenomena are matters of life and death, so people want
some control over these events. Magic gives them that sense of doing
something and having an input into the process of life and death. All
religions are based on faith and magic where performing certain
ceremonies have powers of healing, rain making, even eternal
salivation and the triumph over death. Gods and saints can give hope
to the hopeless and direction, rules, order to civilizations. The
claims are magical and hysterical calls to worship or patriotic
emotions that underpin civic order. A spiritual and traditional sense
of purpose, direction, order and meaning are required by humans to
organize their societies.
If
it were not abortion, it would be other wing nut issues
Magic
Science and Religion: And Other Essays, by Bronislaw Malinowski.
Selected,
and with an Introduction by Robert Redfield
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=magic+science&btnG=
Death
and Rebirth of Seneca
Anthony
Wallace
Knopf
Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 1, 2010 -
This
book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation
history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his
visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American
Indian society -
When
people in groups face serious changes in the paradigms they live by
and are threaten in their essence that make a culture what it
fundamentally is, and without which it loses its identity.
The
white southern men of the silent majority・of
the ongoing culture wars against 斗iberals・and
secularization, integration, feminism, the counter culture, the rise
of scientific methods over the traditional authority of religion.“You peasants can't handle the truth”
Science,
magic, superstition and finding answers:
https://sites.google.com/site/dynamicsynergyworkshop/
The
natural human desire to find explanations underlies both science and
magic. People like or need to find reasons for what is going on.
Anthropologist found that tribes will use evidence and facts when
they have them. They are very material and practical. They also have
magical solutions to everyday problems when there are no better
alternatives. Questions of weather, animal migration, disease and
other natural phenomena are matters of life and death, so people want
some control over these events. Magic gives them that sense of doing
something and having an input into the process of lifer and death.
All religions are based on faith and magic where performing certain
ceremonies have powers of healing, rain making, even eternal
salivation and the triumph over death. Gods and saints can give hope
to the hopeless and direction, rules, order to civilizations. The
claims are magical and hysterical calls to worship or patriotic
emotions that underpin civic order. A spiritual and traditional sense
of purpose, direction, order and meaning are required by humans to
organize their societies.
Everyday
the news reports give explaining reasons why the “market” has
gone up or down. They sound like the market has purpose and
intention. In fact no one knows why markets have day to day
variations beyond there are more buyers or more sellers at a moment
of time. Thousands of individuals and computer programs make
thousands of individual choices partly based on what all the other
actors are doing and making assumptions about the reasons behind
these decisions. Except when there are great events most of the time
there is a random element that defies explanation. Never the less
some magical words are used to explain the unexplainable.
The
desire to find purpose and intention in evolution and human existence
is quite natural and also impossible. Disposing with the idea of an
external, perhaps even supernatural, vitalizing force, describes how
we have arrived at the picture of ourselves and all organisms as
Self-Made Things. Our creations include governments, constitutions,
institutions, magic, superstitions, ceremony, ritual, flag waving,
songs, etc. Our gods are made by us not the other way around. They
are made because we need them. They should not (but often do) become
a Frankenstein.
So
we have to take things for what they are. Social conventions,
religious ceremony, national character, are useful and even
necessary. They are NOT science or material facts. There are very
important ideas and beliefs beyond or outside science – arts and
literature, song and dance, mystery and magic, wonder and dreams –
Santa Claus and the tooth fairy the lands of wonder and magic – the
problem arises when belief systems make material judgments (stem cell
research) outside their competence. Science can be arrogant about
people’s useful and practical beliefs. (Alternative medicine).
Science must support the moral and useful desire to do good works,
spread truth and justice, equality and fairness which have no
material meaning (you can’t find the stuff of kindness and measure
it) or do these beliefs have a scientific basis.
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Paradigm
shift
I
first became clear about the concept of a quantitative and
qualitative leaping change in thinking with a study of native
American tribal cultures. The white Europeans said “take me to your
leader” assuming a hierarchical structure with someone in charge.
In native's community it just doesn't work that way, they have wise
men, tribal elders who discussed everything until they reached
consensus. Sometimes the Japanese do this which is slow but
implementation is better and faster because they all know the goals,
process, and expected outcomes. The idea of elections was
problematical because it involved conflict and someone putting
themselves forward as being better than someone else. Real leaders
in-bodies the living containers of the culture, they are the law in
so far it is inside and they reflect the customs and are preservers
of the traditions of their forefathers in generations past. They are
truly judicial conservatives living with the law as handed down to
them. Traditions are the way of survival, where the knowledge helps
find where game and is used when it works and answers “what does
the weather patterns mean”..
A
second paradigm shift was with a understanding of Edward Deming
quality control groups.
The
core of the shift is that inspection, fixed procedures and rules,
close supervision, only make things worse beyond rote activity. It is
quality is not oddments hung on the tree but needs to grow from the
roots.
"...Robert
Michels, a friend of Weber's, also was concerned about the
depersonalizing
effect of bureaucracy. His views, formulated at the
beginning
of this century, are still pertinent today.
The
Iron Law of Oligarchy
"Michels
(1911) came to the conclusion that the formal organization of
bureaucracies
inevitably leads to oligarchy, under which organizations
originally
idealistic and democratic eventually come to be dominated by a
small,
self-serving group of people who achieved positions of power and
responsibility.
This can occur in large organizations because it becomes
physically
impossible for everyone to get together every time a decision
has
to be made. Consequently, a small group is given the responsibility
of
making
decisions. Michels believed that the people in this group would
become
enthralled with their elite positions and more and more inclined to
make
decisions that protect their power rather than represent the will of
the
group they are supposed to serve. In effect Michels was saying that
bureaucracy
and democracy do not mix. Despite any protestations and
promises
that they would not become like all the rest, those placed in
positions
of responsibility and power often come to believe that they too
are
indispensable, and more knowledgeable than those they serve. As time
goes
on, they become further removed from the rank and file...
http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
University
adminstration and profesors, school professionals, labor unions,
military industrial complex, law enforcement and security empires,
congressional leadership, etc
They
all are there to serve the public interests but end up taking care of
their managers first - they can to Washington to do good and they end
up doing very well.
"Bureaucracy
happens. If bureaucracy happens, power rises. Power corrupts."[3]
Any large organization, Michels pointed out, has to create a
bureaucracy in order to maintain its efficiency as it becomes
larger—many decisions have to be made daily that cannot be made by
large numbers of disorganized people. For the organization to
function effectively, centralization has to occur and power will end
up in the hands of a few. Those few—the oligarchy—will use all
means necessary to preserve and further increase their power.[2][3]
Michels,
Robert. 1915. Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the
Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy. Translated into English
by Eden Paul and Cedar Paul. New York: The Free Press. From the 1911
German source.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy
Plato, following his teacher, Socrates (and, it is likely, the older tradition of Pythagoras), understands philosophy as philo-sophia, or, literally, a friend of Wisdom. This understanding of philosophia permeates Plato's dialogues, especially the Republic. In that work, the leaders of the proposed utopia are to be philosopher kings: rulers who are friends of sophia or Wisdom.
The
Pythian
Oracle
(Oracle of Delphi)
reportedly answered the question of "who is the wisest man of
Greece?" with "Socrates!"
Socrates defends this verdict in his Apology
to the effect that he, at least, knows
that he knows nothing.
As is evident in Plato's portrayals of Socrates, this does not mean
Socrates' wisdom was the same as knowing nothing; but rather that his
skepticism towards his own self-made constructions of knowledge left
him free to receive true Wisdom as a spontaneous insight or
inspiration. This contrasted with the attitude of contemporaneous
Greek Sophists,
who claimed to be wise and offered to teach wisdom for pay.
