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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (13673)	1/31/2013 2:38:20 PM
From: No Mo Mo	Respond to of 49149

"Damn well about time." This is all good, but 20:00 - 22:12 illustrate your point. 20:00 karl popper 20:01 writes about it in 20:03 uh... the open society and its enemies 20:06 uh... 20:07 you know i actually proper has a great lining said that 20:10 that the question is not how do you get good people to rule that's the wrong 20:14 question 20:16 most people attracted to power according to proper art best mediocre 20:21 which is obama 20:22 or venal which is harper 20:29 the question 20:31 is how do you make the power elite frightened of you 20:35 that is the question 20:36 and you do that 20:38 by creating movements that hold fast 20:41 to moral imperative to invent a writes about this in this book but reason of 20:46 intellectuals 20:47 when he says that we all have a choice in life 20:50 between serving two sets of principles 20:54 either privilege and power 20:56 or justice and truth 20:58 but the more 21:00 those of us who are committed to justice and truth make concessions 21:05 to those who serve privilege and power 21:07 the more we diminish 21:09 the capacity protest disinterest 21:12 and that was and i think the failing 21:15 of the left 21:16 certainly in my country 21:17 is that we forgot 21:19 that is not part dropped a card is a great 21:21 moment 21:23 in kissinger is memoirs do not buy the book 21:26 where its nineteen seventy one 21:29 and there's a huge antiwar demonstration outside the white house 21:34 and nixon 21:36 who by the way was our last liberal president 21:38 because he was still scared of movements 21:41 both show the mine safety act the clean water hall came under next 21:47 so white house is ringed with empty buses 21:50 and nixon standing about any window with kissinger looking out 21:54 wringing his hands 21:56 going 21:57 henry 21:58 henry 22:00 they're gonna break through the barricades and get us 22:03 and that's just what we want people in power