In a message dated 8/14/02 8:21:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< However, the two statements are compatible. In society there are minorities with little power and other minorities with much power. For example, a country could have a ruling elite with much wealth and power, and also despised minorities with little power. Fred Foldvary >> Well minorities can't generally be both overpowered and overly-powerful as you first claimed in self-contradiction. Either they as a general rule run things or as a general rule get overrun (or neither), but not both. To say that currently some small groups get a good deal of what they want and that other small groups don't probably describes the current situation, and probably predicts the outcome of Professor Hanson's set-up, but not in a way that clarifies anything about either. David Levenstam
