[MD] Democracy

[Platt Holden]

[Ian]
> To be provocative, this boils down to what intellectual (elite)
> arrangements are valid to control / limit the freedoms of social
> arrangements. Practically, the answer cannot simply be one individual
> one vote on every decision that affects every individual - for that
> case read anarchy instead democracy. Even if social and intellectual
> patterns are intermixed in one "cultural" level - as I see it - it's
> the same question of which more-intellectual patterns may limit the
> freedoms of which more-social patterns. If the answer is "any" - that
> is all intellectual patterns dominate and control all social patterns,
> then a VERY clear distinction between social and intellectual patterns
> becomes essential. Otherwise Platt might pass for intellectual ;-)

As might Ian. :-)