[MD] Distinguishing Levels

[a steffes]

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.
   
  >>>I hope you have changed your mind. Please start seeing things wrong with this sentiment. Thank you.

   
> 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.

  >>>Come on kids. This is getting way too corny. The "higher level" didn't evolve from the "lower level". The "higher level" is not concerned with benevolence in any form. This is just too tidy and academic. Here it is: THE SWINE UP AND TOOK IT ALL. Any questions?
   
   
  > 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 ...
   
  >>>Godammit! This is all a bunch of bullshit! You people seem to be in love with authority: Platt, "higher level" types, intellectuals, rules, regulations, static this, static that. You docile sheep are going to make me puke all over my new cowboy boots. Be strong enough to recognize that a metaphysical system is nothing more than an elaborate (and unverifiable) claim as to what in the hell is going on. You people are like totally so Hale-Bopp.
   
  Ayar


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