Comments on: The Pious Lie http://attempter.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/the-pious-lie/ Civilization at the Peak Mon, 20 May 2013 10:56:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Analysis of Strategic Defaults (1 of 5) « Volatility http://attempter.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/the-pious-lie/#comment-1633 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:34:35 +0000 http://attempter.wordpress.com/?p=391#comment-1633 [...] Can't Work — Tags: strategic default — Russ @ 7:02 am   I’ve previously mentioned University of Arizona law professor Brent White’s report on strategic mortgage defaults. I [...]

]]> By: Russ http://attempter.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/the-pious-lie/#comment-607 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:01:35 +0000 http://attempter.wordpress.com/?p=391#comment-607 Yeah, Victorianism had a tremendous amount of enshrined hypocrisy.

In his political ideas Plato was an elitist of merit. In his perfect world the best minds (as identified through a rigorous, communistic educational and testing process which would be the same for all citizens) would exercise benevolent despotism. (The pious lies would’ve been part of that despotism.) He also would’ve completely separated material wealth and political power. The political and military classes would’ve lived communistically.

Of course, except for the lying it’s all utterly impossible in real life.

]]> By: Edwardo http://attempter.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/the-pious-lie/#comment-606 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:51:13 +0000 http://attempter.wordpress.com/?p=391#comment-606 I have long been under the impression that Plato was a crypto-fascist, a sort of well spring of elitism. As I read your piece, I was put in mind of Victorianism, which was full of all sorts of claptrap moral proscriptions and prescriptions that the lower middle and middle classes invested heavily in, but that the upper classes, who publicly promulgated such mores, lustily sniggered at.

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