[MD] Social Imposition ?

[ian glendinning]

Hi folks ,,, I thought I'd spin off a new thread from the point I'd
reached with Arlo ... If I may paraphrase what I think we may have
(almost) agreed

"The quality of an intellectual pattern is inversley proportional to
the level of effort (needed to be) imposed by society to maintain that
pattern, (but is proportional to how widespread it is believed by free
thinkers)."

Discuss.

Ian
(Why do I keep seeing Mill in these thoughts ?)