"the public" doesn't want to be listened to, but they want an authority
Question : isn't this statement a little condescending, indeed elitist? "Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
Of course, the voters in the primary were PS members, and here it's self-identified "sympathisers". Still it may be that lingering resistance on the part of DSK/Fabius/Jospin supporters may explain the 40%, rather than an objection to participative methods. (OK, they may also be, at least partly, people who prefer an authoritarian daddy-figure).
Mass education, and mass media are playing havoc with the old regulatory mechanisms, creating a lot of confusion - and a lot of opportunities for dishonest people at all levels. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Being elite in the bad sense is being one of those with power and money.. being the elite in the good sense is just knowing what is going around you.
I love the good elite.. the others, both non-elite and elite+elite.. well I decide my opinion in a case by case basis :)
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
It is just my personal categorization of things.... I sometimes like to introduce it when someone uses the standard version.... je jeej
But thanks in any case.
a pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
yes, I understand now.. a diary not about my particular definition but about the notion.. yeah .. you two are right.. it seems worthy of a diary.. but I do nto think I have the knowledge of the elite to do it...
I am sure here there are other people more fit to do the diary :) Iam not an elite+elite :)
