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As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. … [The fundamental question becomes] are we still capable of self-government and therefore freedom? Margaret Mead wrote in a 1959 issue of Daedalus about scientists elevated to the status of priests. Now there is a name for this elevation, when you are in the hands of-one hopes-a benevolent elite, when you have no control over your political decisions. From the point of view of John Locke, the name for this is slavery.