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Alternate hosts of the paper can be found using Google Scholar; here's one: http://dspace.learningnetworks.org/bitstream/1820/629/1/ICLS... [pdf]

From José Ortega y Gasset's Revolt of the Masses [1930]:

    “Doubtless the most radical division of humanity that  
     can be made is that between two classes of creatures:  
     those who demand much of themselves and assume a burden 
     of tasks and difficulties, and those who require 
     nothing special of themselves, but rather for whom to 
     live is to be in every instant only what they already 
     are.”
What Ortega y Gasset argues, and what is still true today, is the true threat to our livelihood comes not from those working to change our society but from those who deny its imperfections, who see acts of self-improvement as admissions of weakness, and who define the correct view to be equivalent to the view of the majority.


> the true threat to our livelihood comes not from those working to change our society but from those [...] who define the correct view to be equivalent to the view of the majority.

Take care with that. Political implications could be huge. This can be read as declaring Democracy being a threat to our existence. Must be my bad english though...

Thanks for the non-paywall link btw.


> Take care with that. Political implications could be huge. This can be read as declaring Democracy being a threat to our existence.

An unfair reading to be sure! The statement should have been followed with a huge asterisk and an explicit qualifier. The thrust of what I meant hinges on the difference between (to quote N+1) a "formal democracy, or the equal right to an opinion, with a democracy of quality in which all views possess equal value — until some are proved superior by commanding a mob following."

I see I've really put my foot in it now. Here's the N+1 article in reference: http://nplusonemag.com/revolt-of-the-elites


Actually that view challenges the Wikipedia idea more than democracy.


I just want to clarify that I'm not making a normative claim about the behavior of low or high NFC individuals. I'm just saying it might be useful to know what kind of audience you're targeting when building your application.




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