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Their thinking is done for them by men much like themselves.
I do not assert that anything better is compatible with the present low state of the human mind. But that does not hinder the government of mediocrity from being mediocre government. No government by a democracy or a numerous aristocracy, either in its political acts or in the opinions, qualities and tone of mind which it fosters, ever did or could rise above mediocrity.
” John Stuart Mill