…of these new age environments at how little people value democratic ideals people love to follow. Didn't they ever read John Stuart Mill? I'm afraid don't answer that. I mean don't they understand what the American experiment is about? It's not about…

…we're into psychedelics I'm not a fan of all these drugs and don't do them personally, but I have enough sense of what John Stuart Mill was talking about in on liberty to know that the real test of democratic values is how you react in the presence of…

…and idiotic and yet we call ourselves a democracy. You only have to study democracy ten minutes I mean read John Stuart Mill to understand that the precondition for democracy is a sophisticated and educated citizenry. If you have one person, one vote,…

…and was the last generation to receive what has always been called a traditional liberal education. It means they read John Stuart Mill, Plato, Thomas Hobbes, Aquinas they read all that stuff, the core works of western civilization and they took psychedelics…

…them data entry and give them 500 channels of TV and let's try and hold on to the social engine here no more John Stuart Mill and Thomas Hobbes for these people they take it too seriously. Yeah, when you talk about it when you speak about the…

…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…

…a passing acquaintance. Well I was quoting I don't know if I can get this right but I was quoting last night John Stuart Mill to a friend of mine John Stuart Mill said: not all conservative people are stupid, but most stupid people are conservative. I…

…don't know if I can get this right but I was quoting last night John Stuart Mill to a friend of mine John Stuart Mill said: not all conservative people are stupid, but most stupid people are conservative. I thought: amazing, that's great, that's Great, I…

…person, one vote any other scheme seems wildly artificial in the Face of that. But you see democracy as Jefferson and John Stuart Mill envisioned it they couldn't conceive of Madison Avenue, the invasive penetration of media and this sort of thing and we…

…Education to everybody and they discovered that if you do that, if you take everybody and make them read Plato and John Stuart Mill and Voltaire and Hobbes as we did, that you can't rule such people. They take it too seriously, they become ungovernable,…

…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 and illiterate lower middle class…

…and law 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 2 000 years old. But most of the time novelty as a word and habit as a word is…

…play. 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 it's incredible. And as…