Eric Hoffer On The Worst Tyrants

 Calvin Thomkins wrote a biography on Eric Hoffer, called Eric Hoffer. Hoffer was worried about viable cities, so they should be hundreds of small units where people, live, work and cooperate, all people of all ages learning all the time, and it is similar to my vague, concepts of individuator-anarchists supercitizens living in and running local cantons something like in Switzerland.

Hoffer describes his small urban prototype community on Page 60 and 61 of Thomkins' book: "'And the beautiful thing,'  he says, 'is that this would naturally not be a school, it would be a playground! I'm antagonistic to schools. I am afraid of school teachers and intellectuals--I think they make the worst tyrants in the world, and they never have any understanding of the masses.'

My response: Schools are hierarchical structures, filled with groupist, group-living non-individuators that love their being enslaved by the hierarchy in which they live, and all creativity and independence thought is bred out of them by teachers, administrators, intellectuals, and bureaucrats as part of the ruling elite. Their power lusts drives them to set moral restraint aside as they are capable of vicious cruelty to get and keep power.

Hoffer the wise realizes that these educated, credentialed elite rulers do not understand the masses at all. Otherwise they would let them be free of maverize and build the free market system to enrich themselves and society.

Thomkins continues quoting Hoffer: "'But what I came to realize is that when you have a small school district of about four hundred people, what you really have is an agora, you have a small Athens, you have the ideal setup where people with different interests, different potentialities, different inclinations, all meet each other, love each other, embrace and wrestle each other. This is the creative situation.'"

My response: This is a deschooled, anarchist society, and it is rather egalitarian and veyr open-ended. All as maverizers are part of the elite and part of the masses, both clqses in eah wuperitien, ll at the same time.