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#1 2011-05-23 18:19:45
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Plato's Guardians
Maybe Plato's idea that ther should be Guardians of the public good was a good idea. Adapting the idea to the modern world: there should be people, not born but bred, to guard our civilization. I'd be glad for your views.
#2 2011-05-23 18:43:51
- Kingstonian
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Re: Plato's Guardians
Golden souls? Philosopher kings?
#4 2011-05-23 19:19:32
- K. A. Adams
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Re: Plato's Guardians
Bred ? You mean like a Master Race ? No thanks
At it's very best it would be a Nanny State or a One World 'Elf & Safety' Government
I'll take my world free and messy without any rules dictated by the uber people
#7 2011-05-23 21:25:10
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Re: Plato's Guardians
Getting bored down there on the Island of Dr Moreau - amongst all the untermenschen ?
Do you deny the idea's connection to totalitarian thought ?
If so, you make yourself (even more) ridiculous.
#9 2011-05-23 21:28:54
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Re: Plato's Guardians
"It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive."
- Mark Twain
#10 2011-05-23 21:41:28
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Re: Plato's Guardians
The next time NJS wants to use a Star Trek script as inspiration for a thread I would ask him to stick to Spock's love life or perhaps the benefits of point shooting with phasers
#13 2011-05-24 05:48:42
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Re: Plato's Guardians
Would that there were one here, as we say in Igentese.
"All in all they are a pretty sleazy bunch."
--Cruiser
"Can one safely bone the cordovan of the dead?"
--Quay
#14 2011-05-24 06:36:47
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Re: Plato's Guardians
I think that Grizzly Adams and Popeye Doyle lack enough humour to be Guardians so we can rule them out of the running; besides no Guardian ever wore red socks.
#16 2011-05-24 06:45:12
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Re: Plato's Guardians
These guardians wear red:-
http://www.guardianangels.org/
Self-appointed though and not exactly what is sought.
#20 2011-05-24 08:51:51
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Re: Plato's Guardians
So, the answer is to replace the all 'Evil Corporations' with 'Guardians' who really do know better and have my best interests at heart ? Riigghht. That's just another style of tyranny
I say being debt free and self employed are a good start
From there we can work on eliminating people's incessant need for big government and / or the Nanny State
#24 2011-05-24 09:14:02
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Re: Plato's Guardians
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#25 2011-05-24 09:22:09
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Re: Plato's Guardians
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