[MD] Food for Thought

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>:

> You don't see how the 
> knowledge produced by political science, sociology, psychology, anthroplogy 
> and other intellectual pursuits can be used to guide society?

The last thing a free society needs is a bunch of intellectuals practicing
social engineering.

> Are you saying that you would expect the intellectual level has her own set 
> of cops and armies to enforce its values by force? That's just silly. 

Intellectuals love to use social laws to enforce their "public interest"
schemes at the point of a gun, the Social Security system being a prominent
case in point. (See Pirsig's comments about FDR's intellectuals.)  



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