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To: koan who wrote (68998)	4/29/2018 7:15:14 PM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Recommended By i-node Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 357109

"Where do you think the first ideas came from about democracy./republics " The Jews. jewishweek.timesofisrael.com "What is a political scientist Wharf?" A pothole on the Bridge to the 21st Century. "What do you think our founding fathers were??" Farmers, plantation owners, publishers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, clergy, scientists.

To: koan who wrote (68998)	4/29/2018 9:50:20 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 357109

>> Sometimes you sound like a right winger with your causal dismissal of things like the wisdom of the Great thinkers like Bertrand Russel, or the science of society and politics. You seem to me to be enamored with the intellectuals of the past. But I never hear you discuss Don Knuth or Djikstra. I never seen any mention of the greats like Feynman, Dyson, or John von Neumann for Christ's sake. Watson & Crick, nothing? Fermi, Hans Bethe, Maxwell, and of course Einstein. Do you ever feel like your hero worship is a little misdirected?