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Q: Do you think American society (or any other society) brazenly commits the "platonic error" of mistaking knowledge for virtue; and if so, to what value do you think contributes most to this belief system?

A: American society does.

It is because we have a strong cultural affinity towards meritocracy. This, being a classless society in theory while in pra…

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