THE PHILOSOPHER KING

if you were having a party ... say a political party ... who would you invite ... how about experts on abortion and war and freedom of speech and on religion on drugs and addiction on poverty and wealth on health and disease ... collect about a hundred ... give them a salary ... feed and house them to a pip ... then let them run loose but give them each a vote ... start in january and call them in november for an election ... give them ten months that is to convince themselves ... meeting in committees that sit around diningroom tables and on sofas and in recliners in livingrooms and homemade libraries ... let them talk on the beach and in the mountains by the pool and on the lake ... let them determine their answers to the questions that will likely plague us these next fifty years by playing the amateur to each other's expert ... novice to the oracles ... let their questions and their answers none of them hard to understand be published to each other in reports ... let them form a shadow government ... get one step ahead