[MD] Food for Thought

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com>:


> Ian G says ..
> 
> Platt, you said it "Take a chance and do nothing is an option that
> should always be seriously considered."
> 
> An option to be seriously considered is one thing, the sole response
> to any situation, hardly. (We need both SQ and DQ)
> 
> I keep coming back to this one point (at the root of my social /
> intellectual issue) and DMB made my point for me too, that any
> "quality" society needs some premises set by an intellectual elite
> (founding fathers, whatever) with social authority to "uphold" these
> intellectual principles. Some form of intellectual elitism seems
> inescapable.

On these matters we're on the same page (to borrow a banality). The premise
of limited government is indeed based on an intellectual principle, explicated 
profoundly in the 18th century by Adman Smith and for 21st century intellectuals
by Noble prize winner Milton Friedman.

Platt



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