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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 2455580" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p><a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/" target="_blank">Karl Popper</a> in “The Open Society and Its Enemies” writes that the question is not how do you get good people to rule. Popper says this is the wrong question. Most people attracted to power, he writes, have “rarely been above average, either morally or intellectually, and often [have been] below it.” The question is how do we build forces to restrict the despotism of the powerful. There is a moment in Henry Kissinger’s memoirs—do not buy the book—when Nixon and Kissinger are looking out at tens of thousands of anti-war protesters who have surrounded the White House. <strong>Nixon had placed empty city buses in front of the White House to keep the protesters back. He worried out loud that the crowd would break through the barricades and get him and Kissinger. And that is exactly where we want people in power to be.</strong> This is why, although he was not a liberal, <strong>Nixon was our last liberal president. He was scared of movements. And if we cannot make the elites scared of us we will fail.</strong> - hedges</p><p></p><p>fear was the primary theme in star wars and the matrix</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 2455580, member: 56035"] [URL='http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/']Karl Popper[/URL] in “The Open Society and Its Enemies” writes that the question is not how do you get good people to rule. Popper says this is the wrong question. Most people attracted to power, he writes, have “rarely been above average, either morally or intellectually, and often [have been] below it.” The question is how do we build forces to restrict the despotism of the powerful. There is a moment in Henry Kissinger’s memoirs—do not buy the book—when Nixon and Kissinger are looking out at tens of thousands of anti-war protesters who have surrounded the White House. [B]Nixon had placed empty city buses in front of the White House to keep the protesters back. He worried out loud that the crowd would break through the barricades and get him and Kissinger. And that is exactly where we want people in power to be.[/B] This is why, although he was not a liberal, [B]Nixon was our last liberal president. He was scared of movements. And if we cannot make the elites scared of us we will fail.[/B] - hedges fear was the primary theme in star wars and the matrix [/QUOTE]
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