Free-will and good governance
Politics as the art of the possible
by Kumar David-January 17, 2016, 10:58 am
"I am Zarathustra the godless; where do I find my equal? All who give themselves Will and renounce Submission, they are mine".
- Friedrich Nietzsche in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
It is in the nature of things that people curse their government, sometimes justly at other times with no thought for the art of the possible. One could say this of ordinary life too; parents desire impossible achievements from their progeny, fans demand Bradmanesque feats from mere Smiths and Sangas, and your salary never matches your true worth, eh? Two samples in the current political universe spring to mind: Is Obama a miserable failure? Is the government of Lanka falling short of reasonable expectations? I will explore both and reach opposite conclusions, but a few paragraphs on free-will may be useful as a primer. I can only touch on the topic but I take the chance name a dazzling array of people; knowledgeable readers may like to expand on what they said on the subject.
