"....for the Benefit of knaves at the cost of fools." Yes indeed! My own
preference in the area of morality is the line from Genesis which basically
suggests, "For Esau was an hairy man, but I am an smooth man." And yet you got
to love the wonderful word Katistocracy as used by the former CIA boss John O.
Brennan, in of all things a tweet, "Your Katistocracy is collapsing after its
lamentable journey." Call him the Samuel Johnson of the secret services, and
wait around for "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Mind you, I'm
with Lemuel Caution on this one. "Slimeball," says it all.
I imagine in the CIA, cracies of all kinds are regularly discussed and
joked about, probably a long list of them have to be memorized otherwise you're
considered a moron, but I had to look up Katistocracy. I assumed it had purring
animal connotations, Lions, Hyena, Bears, Rabbits, Guinea Pigs, that sort of
thing. I was wrong. The "kati" part of the word comes from the Greek for the
very worst, totally useless, fit only to be thrown away. The "cracy" part comes
from the Greek word for style of rule. Over the years those more faint hearted
in our number have yearned for a return to an Arthurian wet dream of Aristocracy
and they have questioned the capacity of Democracy to avoid becoming a
Katistocracy.
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