Thierry de Coulon wrote:
I guess the strategy is that in a world where most are
uneducated, the few
who are are the masters.
do not overestimate the ruling class. Education is not equal to Enlightment,
but I understand what you mean ... there were few that played chess, could
read and write and were at the right position of power.
Look at the way the church could rule the (western)
world in the Middle
Ages when even kings could barely read and write.
And what makes you think they are not doing it right now?
Enlightent people make things more complicated and to have them under
control costs a lot, but these are somehow necessary to build all those
machinery.
IMO we evidence the failure to comprehend this truth by the new
(Wall-Street) elite.
Manufacturing and knowledge shifted east - so does or will do enlightment.