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Pastimes : Neocon's Seminar Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (867)	9/2/2003 4:04:40 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1112

The article is not very good, but it is tiresome to have to explain in detail the various problems. In the end, Strauss agreed with Churchill, that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. His main point was that philosophers and academics had to be protected from popular prejudices, and they, in turn, would contribute to the education of those most likely to fill offices within the state. He did not think that philosophers were suited to rule, but he did think that education was necessary to create an elite fit to rule. He did not think that such an elite was necessarily drawn from the upper classes, but that it was drawn from the natural aristocracy of talent. He did not believe in arbitrary lying, but he did believe that some dissembling was necessary to conduct the affairs of state, and also to protect the philosophers from the wrath of the unenlightened. Remember, he was anti- Nazi and anti- Communist, and interested in how one shapes and preserves a moderate regime in a world that was often chaotic and dangerous.......

To: TigerPaw who wrote (867)	9/2/2003 9:25:03 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1112

Excellent description of the inherent dishonesty and arrogance of these elistists. It corresponds well to what we see unfolding. Unfortunately, it also dovetails nicely with the military-industrial forces busily at work profiteering from this bloody un-American arrogance. The result is a gov't that is at war with the American people. It is impossible to look at it any other way but a hijacking of the gov't. It isn't amusing that they refer to themselves as the "Cabal". Would the American people, if they knew what was really being done and planned, tolerate this? This "expedience" with the ends justifying the means quickly devolves into a state that is no better than Mousellini or Hitler, and will end with the same result if not stopped. This explains more than anything I've read the experience I had with a GOP attorney a while back, who issued the same sorts of incredible hypocracy, up to and including the denoument: "well, even if Bush cronies had something to do with it [9/11] it was worth it, allowing all the necessary things to get done".