{"id":21320,"date":"2016-06-30T19:44:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T00:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21320"},"modified":"2016-06-30T19:44:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T00:44:46","slug":"its-time-to-rise-up-against-the-ignorant-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21320","title":{"rendered":"It’s Time to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Time to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses!<\/a><\/h3>\n
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And so it\u2019s on\u2026<\/p>\n

James Traub, at Foreign Policy.com, has called for the\u00a0\u201celites to rise up against the ignorant masses.\u201d\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0In a spectacular display of the very ignorance against which he issues his call to arms, Traub shows how thoroughly infected the establishment is with their group-think. \u00a0God forbid the \u2018fist shaking\u2019 rabble would actually think for themselves and effect an \u201cutter repudiation of the bankers and economists and Western heads of state who warned voters against the dangers of a split with the European Union.\u201d \u00a0If there was a miscalculation on the part of David Cameron, it was \u201chow utterly he misjudged his own people[\u2018s ability to think for themselves].\u201d<\/p>\n

Rise up against the ignorant masses? Be careful what you wish for, Mr. Traub\u2026 Your intellectual nakedness just might end up on full, public display.<\/p>\n

The Foundational Issue: The Most Significant Unit of Society<\/b><\/p>\n

Traub shows himself ignorant of both British and American history when he concludes: \u201c[M]aybe we have become so inclined to celebrate the authenticity of all personal conviction that it is now elitist to believe in reason, expertise, and the lessons of history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Philosophically, \u2018Scottish Common Sense Realism\u2019 provides a framework for understanding how someone\u2019s thinking would begin with \u2018personal conviction\u2019. \u00a0This framework lies at the heart of the thinking of authors like John Locke, on whom Thomas Jefferson depended heavily when writing the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n

Locke\u2019s philosophy of government and economics expresses this framework and stands in stark contrast to that of Thomas Hobbes. Between the two of them we can drive the difference down to a single question: What is the most significant unit of society? \u00a0The answer for those who would follow Hobbes is the\u00a0State<\/i>. \u00a0For those who would follow Locke it would be the\u00a0individual<\/i>.<\/div>\n

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It’s Time to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses! And so it\u2019s on\u2026 James Traub, at Foreign Policy.com, has called for the\u00a0\u201celites to rise up against the ignorant masses.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0In a spectacular display of the very ignorance against which he issues his call to arms, Traub shows how thoroughly infected the establishment is with their group-think. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1195,4091,279,284,326,14132,14131],"class_list":["post-21320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-david-cameron","tag-elites","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-foreign-policy","tag-ignorant-masses","tag-james-traub"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21321,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21320\/revisions\/21321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}