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Thu Feb 4 02:59:15 1982
RE: Technologists and Humanists
In the history of the republic there has never ben a
legislature--state or federal--not having a majority of lawyers.
Whether lawyers are "humanists" or not, they certainly are not
technologists or scientists.
In our history there has never been a legislature having
more than a few technologists or scientists in it.
The laws are hideously complex; this may or may not have
smething to do with the lawyers who have made them. Would a
legislature of engineers have done worse?
For most of our history we have in fact been governed by
"humanists" to the extent that we have been governed by
intellectuals at all. Certainly the lawyers have always
controlled the output of technologists; while until very
recently our academic institutions were run by "humanists." We
have a system which seems often enough to have damned near
killed the lot of us. Is this an interesting observation?
Perhaps it is time to drop the whole matter.
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