The Gospel for Idiots: Morally, We have Lulled Ourselves to Sleep
June 24, 2012 2 CommentsWhat is novel about the City of Man we have ushered in is its idiosyncratic nature. It is not really a republic, or a democracy, or even a republican democracy or a democratic republic. It is an idiocracy. To have a democracy, you must have a people, a demos. To have a republic, there must be a public thing, a res publica, a common good that is being protected or promoted.
