[MD] Distinguishing Levels

[Khaled Alkotob]

Well said and here is where the hypocrisy rears its ugly head.

A while back, i wrote saying that i did not see anything wrong with a
society ruled by the "Wise One", as long as the people are happy. Then
the Neocons come to remind us that It's democracy they are trying to
export to those poor bastards. A few hundred years ago it was religion
exported tot he savages, because the churches of Europe knew best.
Yet at home, the neocons run the charade called Elections behind the
curtains of the PR machines. The masses are stupid and they know best.

As with the laws of physics, tide, time and gravity, the intellect has to
realize what can and cannot be changed according to those laws.

They keep failing.
That's what I keep telling Platt. We are not all created equal. Cherish
the gifts you have and be a good "Steward". Get to the top and help the
rest get there too. I know not all want to get there, and some are lazy
and don't care, but from what I have seen, it's get to the top and as
soon as someone gets near, kick them down.

That my friend they don't want, they want their cake and eat it too. In
the end it al comes crumbling down.

[Ian]
> Khaled,
> 
> The fragility is in "acceptance" by the lower level of "rule" by the
> higher level, and in what happens when the lower level resists.
> Similarly the higher level must never forget it is built on the 
> lower
> level "foundation", and that it only exists because that is where it
> evolved from. The higher must therefore protect the lower too.
> 
> As Platt would remind us the higher level must assert its right to
> govern the lower by force if necessary, though I'm not sure I'd give
> Platt the executive powers to apply that policy :-)
> 
> The intellectual elitism stinks to many people, but it's a part of 
> the
> model, as we skate on that thin ice. People who live in
> intellectual-ice-houses, etc ...
>