On Aug 7, 7:21*pm, Day Brown wrote:
On 08/06/2010 08:16 PM, Chas. Chan wrote: Elites may have more brilliance, but those who make decisions for
society as a whole cannot possibly have as much experience as the
millions of people whose decisions they preempt. The education and
intellects of the elites may lead them to have more sweeping
presumptions, but that just makes them more dangerous to the freedom,
as well as the well-being, of the people as a whole.

It dont work that way anymore. It turns out, the neurology shows that
you cant raise kids on sugar cereals, junk food, and soda and then
expect them to grow up to be rational voters. Just look at all the
lunacy here compared to the tiny amount of rational discourse.

And this effects the elites as well.

As a result, the corporate mass media prefers sensational stories that
build ratings and hence ad revenues rather than the dull analysis of
real statistical data showing what is going on.

- The elites, the media, and the sheeple all suffer from group think.

But these are three different groups - so . . .

Elite {Elitists} Group Think
-wrt- Czars & Kings, & Lords & Caliphs;
Comrade Great Leaders & Commissars;
Führers & Reichsfuhrers;
Presidents-for-Life; etc
* Impose the Suffering on the Masses

Mass Media {Propagandist} Group Think
-wrt- Wilson WWI & Goebbels WWII & 1984
* Glorify Suffering as Good and Necessary
and even to be Enjoyed

Sheeple {The Subjugated Masses} Group Think
-wrt- Workers & Serfs & Slaves
* Endure the Real Pain of the Suffering

All American Individualism Screams Out
Against {Foreign} Group Think :

America - "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor,
http://www.libertystatepark.com/emma.htm
Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free,

America a Government :
Of the People {Not Sheeple and Not the Elitists},
By the People {Not Sheeple and Not the Elitists},
For the People {Not Sheeple and Not the Elitists},
Shall not Perish from the Earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address

Prez Lincoln had it right and you are simply wrong ~ RHF