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Pastimes : JFK Jr., Is this an assasination?
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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (453)8/23/1999 9:25:00 AM
From: MNI  Read Replies (1) of 542
 
mediocre, excellent, inspired - by whose judgement?

I rather like the mediocre to reign and be institutionally responsible to all the other mediocres like me, and additionally to some excellent people that may in some cases manage to stick out, e.g., by effective use of language or public symbolism, or good humor, than that some mediocres (or even worse) claim to be the excellent or inspired ones who take the privilege of ruling the country without feeling responsible to any checks or balances.
That was the case during the last appearance of monarchy in Germany. That William II was a less than mediocre intelligent, psychologically deeply disturbed person. Yet a great number of people that should have known better, some of them aristocrats, supported him for exactly the reasons you stated. Although I do not approve of giving Germany the sole responsibility for WWI's start, it is clear that a very big load of this responsibility is laid correctly on Germany, for that single reason. And so in Germany I think no same person should be a monarchist, actually. (And there is a multiplicity of different reasons I could give you why I am not.)

Try reading the last link I mentioned in my previous post directed at CK.
It seems worth a good laugh.

Regards MNI.
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