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To: Lane3 who wrote (95281)	11/11/2008 11:29:26 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541957

" Personally, I think one has considerably better odds going with the elite, but they often steer us seriously wrong. " I agree with that. I think it's much more likely for the stupid and ignorant to defer to intellectuals than for intellectuals to defer to each other. The intellectuals I have known fight, and enjoy fighting :-) That's part of what being an intellectual is all about. Deference is not an intellectual trademark.

To: Lane3 who wrote (95281)	11/11/2008 11:56:02 AM
From: Katelew	Respond to of 541957

The thought just occured to me that the right-wing psyche may be more susceptible to embracing 'guilt by association' and the left more suceptible to embracing its counterpart, 'virtue by association'.

To: Lane3 who wrote (95281)	11/11/2008 12:04:07 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541957

<<<Personally, I think one has considerably better odds going with the elite, but they often steer us seriously wrong. >>> You mean to tell me there are people susceptible to hubris: the Greek word for ‘insolence’ or ‘affront’, applied to the arrogance or pride of the protagonist in a tragedy in which he or she defies moral laws or the prohibitions of the gods. The protagonist's transgression or hamartia leads eventually to his or her downfall, which may be understood as divine retribution or nemesis. Hubris is commonly translated as ‘overweening (i.e. excessively presumptuous) pride’. In proverbial terms, hubris is thus the pride that comes before a fall.