That’s quite unlikely with so many of them clamouring for our attention and arguing about who is right. That’s a system that can’t even get agreement when many of them are saying that it’s the future of the world at stake.
I think it’s up to the guardians – Cate, Dame Elisabeth, our politicians, columnists, assorted gurus and so on, to set a good example, rather than their current approach, which seems to have originated when another guardian said ‘Let them eat cake’. Look what happened to her – that was indeed a ‘tightly focused hate campaign.’
I don’t know about Plato’s idea of the gradual decline of good government. It seems that for quite a while the world began to be ruled by science, and respect for intelligence rated highly. Then, with postmodernism and the advent of mass media, intelligence and knowledge was replaced by fame and fortune. The next stage seems to be the granny state.
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Plato has a lot to answer for, but he wasn’t all bad. He also said “He was a wise man who invented beer.” I can go along with that!
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Peter McCloy is an author and speaker, now retired, who lives on five acres of rock in an ecologically sensible home in the bush. He is working on a 20,000-year plan to develop his property, and occasionally puts pen to paper, especially when sufficiently aroused by politicians. He is a foundation member of the Climate Sceptics. Politically, Peter is a Lennonist - like John, he believes that everything a politician touches turns to sh*t.
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