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From: ptownson@eecs.nwu.edu (Patrick A. Townson)
Subject: Re: Amendments
Message-ID: <1991May1.020435.21456@eecs.nwu.edu>
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Date: Wed, 1 May 1991 02:04:35 GMT

In article <1991Apr29.001738.1233@alphalpha.com>, nazgul@alphalpha.com
(Kee Hinckley) writes:

> In article <1991Apr28.061119.18402@eecs.nwu.edu> ptownson@eecs.nwu.
edu (Patrick A. Townson) writes:

> >I wish you would recall that it is supposed to be 'we the people' who
> >do the governing, make the laws and decide how things are done ... why
> >aren't we allowed to do it any longer?

> But my main fear is simply that the majority of us are far too
> uneducated and short-sighted.  

Screw you.

> That's an incredibly elitist view of course, 

You're damn right it is.

> and I'm torn.  

Very interesting that you have some conflicts on this.

> I'd like to see a real democracy, but I don't think that democracy
> without education can work.  But maybe I'm wrong.

Well, then I guess we'll just have to keep on having lawyers and
politicians around to save us from our incredibly ignorant, uneducated
and short-sighted selves. I don't think democracy and education have
anything to do with each other at all ... although admittedly I prefer
being around educated people, preferably people a lot smarter than
myself.

The great comedian of much earlier in the twentieth century, (perhaps
you have heard of him?) W. C. Fields once commented on this very
thing. He was talking about the kind of girl friends he liked, and his
response was, 'the dumber they are, the better I like them'  :) ...

  ... and I suspect most charlatans would feel the same way about
society in general.

But whatever -- not everyone can be as well-educated as yourself,
sorry. 







