Asri-unix.688 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:C70:sri-unix!POURNE@MIT-MC Thu Feb 4 02:59:15 1982 RE: Technologists and Humanists In the history of the republic there has never ben a legislature--state or federal--not having a majority of lawyers. Whether lawyers are "humanists" or not, they certainly are not technologists or scientists. In our history there has never been a legislature having more than a few technologists or scientists in it. The laws are hideously complex; this may or may not have smething to do with the lawyers who have made them. Would a legislature of engineers have done worse? For most of our history we have in fact been governed by "humanists" to the extent that we have been governed by intellectuals at all. Certainly the lawyers have always controlled the output of technologists; while until very recently our academic institutions were run by "humanists." We have a system which seems often enough to have damned near killed the lot of us. Is this an interesting observation? Perhaps it is time to drop the whole matter. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.