On 19 December 2011 17:51, Bjartur Thorlacius <svartma...@gmail.com> wrote: > It was taken out of the context of an article found on Al Jazeera > arguing that people should be dictated by benevolent "intellectuals" > ethically ignorant of contemporary and local problems that don't > brainwash people through news media. Oh, the idealist ignorance of the > nature of humans.
Not exactly a new idea, either. cf. Plato's Republic. PS. This mailing list is a strange thing. cls
