Doctors’ strike symptom of malaise in leadership

American thinker John Henry Thoreau wrote in the 1849 seminal essay — Resistance to Civil Government, also known as Civil Disobedience — that “government is best that governs the least.”

The aphorism is democratic admonition to governments that are controlling and tyrannical of their citizens. The idea is that government should let citizens think and act for themselves without dictation. Mr Thoreau believed that primarily government is an agent of corruption, and that democracy does not bequeath the majority with the virtues of wisdom and justice. He argued that it was the duty of honest people to rebel and revolt against the state. He argued that complicit citizens with atrophied brains were paying taxes to support a government anchored in slavery.