…Now, a social polity coming out of John Locke and the English Social philosophers would want to stay away from that in the John Stuart Mill tradition but I think we're going to have to go back to Plato. Plato did not trust the poets, and the heirs of…

…would be turned into trade schools, and people would be given mbas and incorporated into the corporate state. But no more John Stuart Mill, no more of that. And the consequences of this have been to create a history, less an illiterate lower middle class,…

…But the revolution going on in China is about consciousness. I mean, God, the notion that, you know, people were selling John Stuart Mill in translation in Tiananmen Square like hotcakes brings a tear to your eye. I mean, it just incredible. And as I…

…and I both are high flown abstractions that come out of a very special philosophical agenda that by the time Hume and Locke and John Stuart Mill got to it, it was 2000 years old. Most of the time, novelty is word, and habit as a word is a put off.…