Conference thebay::joyoflex

    Mediocracy?

    
    
    Stephen

    Ochlocracy = mob rule
    
    Under -cracy, I find monocracy, mobocracy, technocracy.
    

    Re: .1
    
    Mediacracy = rule by newspaper and TV polls

    The magazine "The Economist" has been using "kleptocracy" for
    some years now, as have "Reason" and "The Wall Street Journal".
    
    _Pace_ Aristotle, there are three kinds of government, each 
    appearing in good and debased forms.  His theory went like this:
    
    Monarchy's debased form is Tyranny.  Its natural evolution is
    to Aristocracy, whose debased form is Oligarchy.  Aristocratic
    states become Democratic, whose debased form is Anarchy.  A
    Democratic state naturally becomes a Tyranny, and a good Tyrant
    becomes a Monarch, restarting the cycle.
    
    Clearly Aristotle was too optimistic--a kleptocracy is an even
    more debased form of Oligarchy!
    
    			-John Bishop

    
    goldacracy	- rule by the Golden Rule (unless it gets declared
    		  unconstitutional)
    
    hypacracy	- rule by a cynical sales manager (any similarity to
    		  "hype" is purely serendipitous)
    
    rolerevacracy  - rule by the least of all our citizens, as in "the
    		     last shall be first, and the first, last"
    
    I thought a Plutocracy happened only when Mickey Mouse took vacation.

... is a concept that has long intrigued me.

    How about	demeritocracy?
    
    It would go along with Mark Twain's comment that
    Congress was America's only native-born criminal class.

    Re .0
    
�    		It would seem to mean rule by thieves, being derived from
� the same root which gives us Kleptomania. 
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� I had never heard the word before and couldn't find it in two dictionaries 
� that I had at home.  Is it a neologism, or has anyone seen it before?

    At first reading, I thought this question was about the root `klepto-'.
    Maybe it's not. Anyway, for what it's worth, I don't remember the
    Greek for thief, but there was certainly a verb `kleptein'.
    
    b 

    
    re: .5, rule by the Golden Rule is actually idealacracy, not 
    goldacracy as I erroneously stated earlier.  Sorry for taking so
    long to look it up.
    
    goldacracy is actually rule by very old-fashioned dentists.

    Re .9:
    
   >re: .5, rule by the Golden Rule is actually ...
    
   "He who has the gold makes the rules."
    
    -- Courtesy, _The Wizard of Id_ comic strip.
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.  

    re:.7
    
    Pro is to con what progress is to congress.

    re: .9
    >goldacracy is actually rule by very old-fashioned dentists.
    
    I thought it was the rule of Israel by Mrs Meier.
    
    Roger

    re .12 > I thought it (goldacracy) was the rule of Israel by Mrs Meier.<
    
	I'm pretty sure the dentists get the gold.
    
	I believe Mrs Meier was originally from Minnesota, or perhaps
    her parents were.  That would make the rule of Israel in her time
    "Minniacracy", which should not be put in the same class as 
    the Plutocracy of .5 - Minnie always took her vacations with Mickey
    and never made a grab for power, however short-lived.
    

    She was born in what is now part of the USSR. She was a school teacher
    in Milwaukee before moving to Israel, so the conjectures in .13 about
    Minniacracy are merely salacious rumor mongering.
    
    The appropriate word for power by people from Milwaukee is
    "Milwaukracy" or "Blatzed". 

    
    .12 .13 Meier = Meir
    Bo

    
    skullacracy - rule by boneheads

    From the Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Words comes
    coprocracy, which is the kind of government existing in various
    countries around the world, depending on one's point of view.
    
    Britain, for example.
    
    Phillip

    Pretty late, but recalled by .0.
    
    (Any Marcos supporters, hit "next unseen" now.)
    (Or make yourself unseen.)
    
    
    
    Marcos had a mining company that was very successful.
    
    It was called "mine, mine, mine."
    
    
    Marcos brought peace and order to the Philippines.
    
    Imelda would say, "I want a piece of that land";
    Marcos would say, "That's an order."
    
    
    Reagan, Gorbachev, and Marcos were on a plane that was running
    low on fuel.  There was only one parachute.
    
    Gorbachev said, "I'm going to bring great things to the Soviet
    Union and to the world.  I need the parachute."
    
    Reagan said, "But I am most important.  Not only those who
    believe that style is needed in the White House, but also the
    free world's strongest economies depend on my policies.  I'm
    taking the parachute."
    
    Marcos said,
    
    "Let's take a vote."
    
    
    
    What was the nationality of Adam and Eve?
    
    Filipino.
    
    They didn't have food, clothing, or shelter, yet they were in
    paradise.