Nobody believes that the rebels are fighting for better government, but nor is peace and wise rule on offer from the government of the day.
This was a wise rule, given that Latin American leaders often prefer the Vatican's electoral system: a president who stays in office until he dies or, in rare cases, is too ill to serve.
The passage is vintage Montaigne: a prescription for wise rule lurking in a few fine, flattering phrases about the fruits of victory; a strategic detour into the real world to say that "if rigor and punishment occur, they must be put off until after the possession of mastery"; and, finally, an appropriate classical example — in this case, Scipio the Elder.
He contrasts the ideal city, in which the wise rule, and two would-be aristocracies, the timocracy in which the militaristically "virtuous" rule and the oligarchy in which the rich rule.
Richard narrates in detail a story of Æthelberht's piety, election as king and wise rule.
But mistrust of government is a phenomenon that has been skillfully exploited in the past few decades to empower those who use government as the instrument to maximize their profits, with the result that those who now mistrust government the most are precisely those who would most benefit from wise rule.
"The authorities want to show a rosy-cheeked face, a beautiful face, as if the wise rulers rule so well that nothing will ever happen," he said.
The connection with information as code is that the modal space is individuated syntactically, with the worlds corresponding to possible results of step-wise rule-governed inferences.
Fourteen years ago a wise man ruled the country.
