i wonder... and i know that you guys would probably disagree... but i feel as though there has been a lack of thought in theory. that is to say, the greatest thinkers in time have been a while back... and we seem to have difficultly ever coming up something entirely profound in the past century. You might point at a myraid of different thinkers - but my response to you will simply be that we hear about adam smith or rousseau or plato or aristotle... but do you hear about modern thinkers in the same vein as they?
i don't believe that in 200 years from now, rousseau will be any less important and the modern thinkers of today any more so... i'm not a believer of the whole "in time" things will change argument.

in any case, i only bring this up because i just finished reading tocqueville, of whom one concern about the world today is the plight of equality. equality, according to him, not only brings up those at the bottom but it brings down those at the top. hence, the lack of original thought or progress...
i rejected it at first... but in thinking some more, i'm beginning to feel uneasy about threat of equality and democracy for man.

please convince me that i'm wrong.

posted by Bryan Lee   [11:06 PM]

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