The idea that the "big man" model of rule is running out of steam may be gaining traction among the continent's leaders.
Since then, the code has become a political football, bouncing back and forth between the rule-of-man and rule-of-law factions.In the code's first year, there were only 98 cases in the whole of China, even though, on proper accounting, virtually the entire state-owned sector was insolvent.
He asked, "What does it mean to have the rule of laws and not of men?" The rules of law are those of men, and laws have their origin in centuries-old rules of ethics.
But Dallaire was a cautious man, a typical Canadian, a man of consensus and rules who was exercising his command in a country of excesses, illogicality and passion.
This can be easily understood as the evolutionary history of human civilization is tantamount to the conversion process of "rule by man" to "rule by law" and to "rule by good law".
There is a clear direction here: from unity to diversity, from centralization to decentralization of power, from the rule of man to the rule of law, from being closed to being open, and from regulatory government to service-oriented government.
The man-code is an unwritten set of rules that men live by, often evolving but rarely changing.
Today, the most dated aspect of the film is its utopian vision of 2036, a decidedly pre-Orwellian fantasy of a benign totalitarian state where wise men of science rule over faceless masses.
Aristotle accepted without question the right of men to rule their families (aristocratically, not tyrannically, the little darling), and that unjust foundation gave all arguments from patriarchy a bad name.
