Comment 32380

By WRCU2 (registered)
Posted July 10, 2009 at 17:16:24

As theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once de- scribed in Moral Man and Immoral Society:

"The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purpose from effective control .... Since the increasing complexity of so- ciety makes it impossible to bring all those who are in charge of its intricate techniques and processes, and who are there- fore in possession of social power, under complete control, it will always be necessary to rely partly upon the honesty and self-restraint of those who are not socially restrained."

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