[lbo-talk] Digestimundo vavavoom

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Jun 5 15:52:25 PDT 2005


Jim Devine wrote:


>Doug: > Calling something "elitism" isn't the same as calling it
>wrong, is it?<
>
>to me it is. I see elitism as being self-deceptive and, in politics,
>self-destructive (unless one wants to set one's self up as a political
>elite, which I don't). One can be "excellent" (or rather, strive to be
>so) without comparing one's excellence to that of others, saying that
>one is better or more rational than others.

So what's the point of education, reading, travel, research? Shouldn't knowledged and experience help us make better decisions? Otherwise, why bother?

Doug



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