Originally Posted by
Conrad_Jalowski
The only question is what will occur as a consequence of these protests and riots: will the North African Arab countries relentlessly and hopelessly slide into despotism, will the Arab states degenerate to a transitional phase marked with chaos and a high degree of lawlessness or will democratic and pluralistic states arise from the political turmoil?
The current regimes [Tyrannical despotisms] are morally unjust as the state merely exists to satisfy the perverted desires, hubris and appetites of the ruling figure and the oligarchy. However, an equally unjust, vulgar and ineffective mode of government would be a democracy as an ignorant citizenry would upset the fragile equilibrium of the state and tear it asunder. Even with an educated citizenry, the people cannot act as a sovereign, autonomous body or function as the very basis of the particular polity as the citizenry is ruled by its appetitive qualities and greatly swayed by its primitive and base impulses. I would argue for the formation of a benign or benevolent despotism that would act for the common welfare of the polity. The citizenry with their primitive appetites would not become licentious under the sovereignty of an enlightened and benevolent ruler while the affluent would not become prey to their avarice. The sovereign with the ruling council composed of the intellectual elite would act in the interest of the common good and limit the excesses of the people. An excessive and licentious populace [Rabble] is the perverted state of a citizen body.
