[lbo-talk] Rationality of the Masses

[Jim Devine]

Doug writes:
> Yeah, I think it's something like that - a really nasty feedback loop
> of bad politics, alienation, religion/individualism, leading to more
> of the same. But some would say I'm being elitist or insensitive by
> pointing to this.

FWIW, I wasn't accusing you of being elitist. Elitism involves not
even trying to look at matters from the "other's" perspective and
presuming that the "other" is irrational (or otherwise inferior) from
one's own perspective.

-- 
Jim Devine
"Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way
and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante