(urth) "Principlesofgovernaaance"GeneWW Wolllfe's Politics

[Son of Witz]

Well, give the other responses to your reply, it shouldn't be hard to see how my shorter restating is a reasonable interpretation.

That I'm not handy with all the jargon does not mean that I'm not familiar with many of the concepts. I'm familiar with the idea that democracy is incredibly problematic and I believe I've said so on this list.

and regarding "educating me"  Catch the whiff of condescension?  pee-yew!
I'm not asking you to educate me, I'm asking what people make of this section of the book. 

but whatevs,

~witz


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>From: brunians at brunians.org [mailto:brunians at brunians.org]
>Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2009 01:07 PM
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>Subject: Re: (urth) "Principlesofgovernaaance"GeneWW Wolllfe's    Politics
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>> it's true,
>> Brunians basically told me: "I'm intellectually superior to you so go read
>> these books before I'll discuss anything with you"
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>I did not.
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>I said 'I am familiar with the history of this subject, what has been said
>by various people, how ideas have shifted over the years, what various
>folks have thought good and bad and why and you are not. I also don't have
>time, right now, to educate you although under other circumstances I might
>be quite happy to do so. So, really, the quickest way for us to have a
>worthwhile discussion about this is for you to do a day or two of intense
>reading (I doubt all four works together are more than a thousand pages),
>rather than me having to explain (for instance) that democracy,
>historically, has not been thought of as a good thing at all.
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>If I didn't consider you at least my intellectual equal, I wouldn't think
>that you were up to the task. I try to treat everyone as if they are my
>intellectual equals, though at times, let me tell you, it is hard.
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