Government is a steering, a balancing of human social systems. This cannot be done today without handlangers, luistervinke, impimpi, shamans, priests, actuaries, enforcers, executioners, executives, thugs, human resources practitioners, spies, spin doctors, assassins, bankers, lawyers and those faith-based forecasters we name economists. Power, by definition, has to be shared with all these and more, if humans are to be governed. All power sails in a sea of anarchy; all legitimacy and all constitutions are the products of revolution and mayhem; all peace results from war. Following Lenin, all that is at issue regarding power is who, whom? Following.
