From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 17:29:26 MDT
Dan Fabulich wrote:
Of course, once you realize this, it's easy to see that a new class system
based on IQ would suffer from many (though not all) of the same problems
that aristocracy had when the aristoi were understood to be those with
"good breeding."
### I'd hesitate before calling the sophocratic demarchy a class system -
after all, the smart guys would only suggest laws. Their passage would be
the strict responsibility of the well-informed average citizens (the lower
chamber would be exactly that).
Rafal
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