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Full Idea
When I consider any social system that prevails in the modern world, I can't see it as anything but a conspiracy of the rich to advance their own interests under the pretext of organizing society.
Gist of Idea
All modern social systems seem to be conspiracies of the rich
Source
Thomas More (Utopia [1516], Bk 2)
Book Ref
More,Thomas: 'Utopia', ed/tr. Turner,Paul [Penguin 1965], p.130
A Reaction
I'm afraid this is my own view of most conservative politics. I don't deny that there is a good case to be made for the conservative view (by Burke and Scruton, for example), but the rich will always latch onto its coat-tails. Cf. Idea 122.
Related Idea
Idea 122 Moral rules are made by the weak members of humanity [Plato]
| 7253 | In Utopia, legal euthanasia is considered honourable [More,T] |
| 7256 | In Utopia, the Supreme Being is identical with Nature [More,T] |
| 7257 | All modern social systems seem to be conspiracies of the rich [More,T] |
| 7254 | If you try to get elected, you should be permanently barred from seeking office [More,T] |
| 7255 | Only Utopians fail to see glory in warfare [More,T] |