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i think machiavelli covered this pretty well in "the prince"
it's part of that curious gap which separates the spectacle of power from the human beings who dance around inside it.
so no, it's not practical. no-one in their right mind would take the oath. or if they did, it would become yet another of those rituals of forthrightness that would be jettisoned and forgotten as soon as raison d'etat ran too counter to it.
you might get some embarrasing photo-ops out of it for a while.
but that wouldn't last long.
and the cynicism that'd be engendered by the failure of the process would do more damage than not having it.
anyway, this is all just transposing words in a cliff-notes version of the prince. read that. it's better.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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