On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:08:28 +0100, Vincent Le Chevalier
<gal### [at] libertyALLsurfSPAMfr> wrote:

>Stephen wrote:
>> But to say that the vast majority of people need to be told how to
>> live is elitism. IMO The vast majority of people need food and an
>> education and not to be oppressed.  
>
>Perhaps I'm misunderstanding nemesis but I thought he meant that the 
>majority of people are willing to follow someone posturing as a leader, 
>and possibly looking for this person, even if they don't need that leader.
>

True but he said that 90% of people are sheep and that in not polite
if you think that each one is a person. That was part of my gripe.

>I've seen that attitude in plenty of contexts: people just looking for 
>someone to follow, not necessarily interested in forming their own opinion.
>

True I'm like that as well but not on this subject :)

>It depends on context by the way; you can be a sort of leader on certain 
>questions, and go for the easier "follower" attitude on other matters. 

True again

>Hence we can all be part of both the clueless majority and enlightened 
>minority ;-)

Why should the majority be clueless and the minority enlightened?
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Regards
     Stephen

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