--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 17, 2008, at 2:15 PM, guyfawkes91 wrote: > > > There may be reducing violence and wars around the globe but that > > doesn't mean it's due to the ME. In fact research done by real > > researchers have found that quality of life measured by things like > > health, low crime, low corruption and so on, is highly correlated with > > societies that are secular liberal democracies. In fact there's an > > inverse correlation between religious belief and quality of life. So > > it looks like the reason for the improvements around the world over > > the last 50 years are mainly due to the spread of things that > > Maharishi disapproved of like democracy, free speech, women's rights, > > free markets and so on. > > > Same with starvation. The great Nobel prize winning economist Dr. > Amrit Sen found that starvation does not occur, globally, in > Democratic forms of government. So whatever, you do, do not listen to > Maharishi--the guy was obviously a deluded egomaniac. Do you know how > important this is? NO democracies; NO starvation. It's because > representative Democracies are a moral stage 5, the "social contract" > level of moral development. In all the lower stages of collective > moral development--like the Maharishi's mad monarchical ideas-- there > is room for starvation to occur because of the way information flows > in the less morally evolved societies. > > Following Maharishi's plan = a mad man's plan for world starvation. > the Maharishi was a visionary, never looking backwards to the current possibilities, which you are doing, but always forward. so your comparison is unfair. I agree with you, that with what we have to work with today, democracy works out pretty well. his statements on democracy as a form of government were strictly in the context of democracy not producing the most capable leaders within government.
the maharishi's principle was that we can quickly achieve tomorrow, ideals beyond our wildest dreams, far exceeding our present status. there's nothing wrong with that, is there?
