But in such a development there is also a not so remote possibility of more rationality and less of ongoing insanity of material over human progress. For if human beings, even in the military, were in charge, instead of automatons managing accumulation of capital for its owners and using the military amorally, some speck of human compassion might halt the drive toward the use of our WMD in another world conflict just to make a whole lot of money.
Ralph Waldo Emerson warned well over a hundred years ago that "Things are in the saddle and ride herd over men." Seems that right now the revolution in Egypt is counting on Egypt's military to take over from their erstwhile amoral international capital serving wealthy minority.
This hierarchy of power in place for centuries in almost the entire planet since the time of previous empires will inevitably be seen by aroused individuals, such as those who are leading revolution in Tunisia and Egypt, as a house of cards built on the assumption that the great mass of wonderfully ordinary people at its base will continue to believe themselves to be powerless.
[* "The real truth of the matter is, as you, and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a letter to Colonel Edward House, October 34, 1933]
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