tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729562980132720815.post976804087393887144..comments2024-03-22T02:27:30.009-05:00Comments on Royal World: Aristocracy and MeritocracyTheodore Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16242452485576182841noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729562980132720815.post-46805467763862364592012-04-10T17:24:41.014-05:002012-04-10T17:24:41.014-05:00I don't see how "A pen"'s commen...I don't see how "A pen"'s comment constitutes a response to what Cassandra Goldman actually wrote. However since it was posted over two years ago I doubt I'll be getting an explanation.Theodore Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16242452485576182841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729562980132720815.post-66096814954681296202010-01-12T09:17:22.697-06:002010-01-12T09:17:22.697-06:00The author completely disregards the corruption in...The author completely disregards the corruption inherent in governments whose operation claims to be the equalization of status and wealth. That corruption is what drives inequality as it is a basis of power the intellectual elite may abuse at will. If you look through the pages of history you will find that the closer a society came to a utopian existence the more it did so on the backs of some social group and was recorded as a great society by historians none the less. The fact that it would take a massive government to intervene as arbiter in all matters of inequality brings with it massive corruption as well. This is a self defeating goal. The framers of the US constitution recognized the dangers inherent in men, their insatiable appetite for power, as being the one thing that no people could or should suffer despite all the assurances of benevolence and good intentions. The myth therefore is that there is a better way to tackle natural diversity and that is by empowering a superior authority purported to be immune from defect and corruption. <br /><br />I would rather suffer fate and struggle freely than suffer under the thumb of unbridled fiat.A penhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06519441140048530323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729562980132720815.post-24790821805800107772009-02-20T02:23:00.000-06:002009-02-20T02:23:00.000-06:00Thank you for the link, sir!Thank you for the link, sir!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729562980132720815.post-36767289322397666102009-02-17T12:47:00.000-06:002009-02-17T12:47:00.000-06:00Truly an excellent essay. Added the author to my l...Truly an excellent essay. Added the author to my list of RSS feeds...Aaron Traashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08583767829520077167noreply@blogger.com