From: Dan Fabulich (dfabulich@warpmail.net)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 19:05:56 MDT
Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> ### 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).
A class system doesn't have to be a political affair, though, obviously,
in the "sophocratic" aristocracy case, it would be. Classes don't have to
completely dominate other classes before it's a class system.
Consider my other objection, which you snipped, that merely on a
*cultural* level, regardless of political situation, classes breed
mistrust and misinformation. Surely you can see that this would happen to
at least *some* extent when you erect cultural boundaries between groups,
especially when you strengthen those boundaries with different political
rights.
Or do you merely mean that the smart guys would get to say whatever they
like about what the law should be? Wouldn't everybody get to do that? ;)
-Dan
-unless you love someone-
-nothing else makes any sense-
e.e. cummings
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