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Re: RE: Totalitarian (the word)



Title: Re: [PEN-L:26387] RE: Totalitarian (the word)
James Devone wrote:

Plato's "totalitarianism" really only applies --to the extent that it really does -- to the Guardians (who are brainwashed, lack individual property, control over who they marry, etc.)...

So, you regard Socrates' prescriptions--equality between the sexes, abolition
of private property and the patriarchal family, higher education, etc.--as    prescriptions for *totalitarianism*?

Shane Mage

"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true."  (N. Weiner)


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