(urth) "Principlesofgovernaaance"GeneWW Wolllfe's Politics

[brunians at brunians.org]

>> 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"
>
> I did not.
>
> 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.

By the way, I left out a quote mark at the end of this paragraph....



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