Is There a Risk in Conservatism?

Bhat: The idea that things can turn to stone and they become tyrannical is an extraordinarily old idea. Even the egyptians long ago knew that the danger of hierarchies is they become static and corrupt, he says. Bhat: Part of what we do in our ongoing political dialogueand d is to say, well, are these do these systems have it? We need them. They're not avoidable. But do they are they functioning properly? Are they loose enough so that people can move? Or have they degenerated into something that's too tyrannical?