Democracy

"Damn democracy," replied the Maharishi when Larry King asked him what he thought about democracy. He often said that democracy is a poison for civilization that creates a crisis of authority, that it is an unstable system of government that creates chaos in society.

Socrates, Plato and Aristotle said that democracy is the worst way to govern society, because the possibilities of abuse are greatest.

Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita that when castes mix, society collapses. And democracy is a system in which the lowest caste chooses the highest.

The opposite of the horizontal way of governing is the vertical - monarchy, and there is no monarchy without spirituality, without a strong church. A monarchy without spirituality is like a corpse without a soul. Sai Baba says that building a society without God is like building a lake without water.

That is why Alexander the Great had Aristotle, Pharaoh Atothis had the high priest Ptahotep, King Arjuna had Krishna, King Aragorn had Gandalf, President Trump had Colonel Douglas Macgregor, and sleepy Joe Biden had Marina Abramovic.