[lbo-talk] Digestimundo vavavoom

[Jim Devine]

I agree with Carrol: to presume that the populace isn't "rational" (in
the sense that you are or I am) is to put oneself above them, like
some sort of demigod. It's elitism. (BTW, "rationality" isn't always
Hegelian.)
JD

On 6/5/05, Carrol Cox wrote:> One cannot understand a population
except on the premise that (with demographically insignificant
exceptions) that popoulace makes its decisions on rational grounds.
The appearance of irrationality is a measure of the observer's
ignorance of the  conditions under which the decisions are made.<