Thought for the day by Charles Handy on whips in Parliament, how people have come to like the whip in their spiritual lives, and how it is encouraging that more and more young people are refusing the whip. Handy begins the thought discussing how one of the great paradoxes of democracy is that when you inspire people, you lose control, and if you trust people to make their own decisions, they make decisions that one does not like. He proceeds to talk about how religions resemble Parliament in wanting to use the whip to maintain consistency in their orders because they, like government, want control. Handy concludes his analysis praising the fact that more people in today's age are willing to work things out for themselves outside traditional patterns of belief and uncover their own source of spirituality, and be responsible for their own destiny.
Handy, Charles B Grimble, Arthur, 1888-1956 Parliamentary practice-Great Britain Major, John, 1943- South Pacific Parliament of the United Kingdom
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Thought for the day by Charles Handy on whips in Parliament and how people like the whip in their spiritual lives. Handy also discusses how it is encouraging that young people are refusing the whip in their own lives, December 7, 1994; Charles Handy Papers; Box 18, Folder 10; 1 page
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