tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207522223081661863.post5921208468576822792..comments2023-05-17T09:05:26.491+01:00Comments on The Economy Project: Democracy in the balanceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207522223081661863.post-41112950723818874612013-04-26T10:55:13.138+01:002013-04-26T10:55:13.138+01:00It seems running the world bank and running the wo...It seems running the world bank and running the world are interchangeable. On that basis Sir Francis Bacon made the "leaven" point rather more earthily":<br /><br />"Government is like muck: not good unless it be spread".<br /><br />I'm sure Chesterton would agree, not that Edward Hadas ("Breaking Views" on debt) would understand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207522223081661863.post-53105129220688781812013-03-25T21:39:29.516+00:002013-03-25T21:39:29.516+00:00Adding on. Bishoprics tend to exist at modern hum...Adding on. Bishoprics tend to exist at modern human scale, and also are of a size to allow for some for of overall authority, so off hand I would say a Bishopric is about as large as a Polis should be. <br /><br />And speaking of Bishoprics, let those who are Catholic be the leaven that form the society. love the girlshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11086068884134493993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207522223081661863.post-58634521165364530822013-03-25T21:28:59.137+00:002013-03-25T21:28:59.137+00:00"Maybe, if we raise a few more citizens, the ..."Maybe, if we raise a few more citizens, the polis will recover with them."<br /><br />How does that which does not exist recover?<br /><br />The polis is by nature at human scale, where as there is virtually not a country on earth at human scale. And most are leviathans so large that even the oceans cannot contain them.<br /><br />The polis can probably be larger than a man can see across, or walk across in a day, but to all things there is a limit and Aristotle was probably close to the mark regardless of modes of transportation and communication. love the girlshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11086068884134493993noreply@blogger.com