The two visions.

[asher553]

'The tragic vision is a vision of trade-offs, rather than solutions, and a vision of wisdom distilled from the experiences of the many, rather than the brilliance of the few. ...

The conflict between these visions goes back for centuries. Those with the tragic vision and those with the vision of the anointed do not simply happen to differ on a range of policy issues. They *necessarily* differ, because they are talking about very different worlds inside their minds.'

- Thomas Sowell, 'Intellectuals and Society'

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[ndrosen]

That makes sense. Decades ago, as a student at Amherst College, I heard Dr. Sowell give a lecture (he was visiting) on the constrained and unconstrained visions; he set forth the idea at greater length a little later with his book, A Conflict of Visions.