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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (11803)5/20/2008 3:49:08 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 219951
 
Mary, you are more likely to get collective stupidity than collective wisdom. The madness of mindless mobs is notorious.

Perhaps on average, in the long run, mobs will move in the right direction, but as you can see from the desolation of Germany after they thought it would be an excellent idea to rampage across Europe, looting and murdering, that mobs don't necessarily come up with good ideas. Japan voted for such "wisdom" too in the early 20th century. They were nuked into submission.

When was the last time you witnessed mob wisdom? It doesn't seem a metaphysical certitude to me.

At present, it seems that President Amendiejihad is set on a similar course with his Islamic Jihad buddies. I don't see any sign of wisdom or collective sagacity there.

Mqurice
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