i don’t consider
by foolish_Paeter
Posted to Utterances on 2003-03-25 08:23:00
Parent message is 410307
the ignorant population to be citizens. I think their vote shouldn’t count. It was only when the citizens stopped being educated constantly that Athens went downhill and killed Socrates.
And then there’s always Thoreau. Any man more right than his neighbours constitutes a majority.
If you win by harnessing the near-elemental force of the ignorant population, then you have won in an ill fashion.