Indrajit Gupta wrote: [ on 05:57 AM 9/5/2007 ]
A note of warning: what they didn't finally manage to engineer out, unfortunately, was the divide between oligarch and democrat. The US scuppered itself in about 300 years; the Athenians, not having the benefit of previous example, took rather less.
I am unable to tell, on re-reading, (and after over a decade of knowing IG) whether this was meant literally or not. What interesting times we live in.
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