Word: utopianist
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Montesquieu understood that good government demands the dogged nurturing of a society of laws and an attention to the knotty details of governance. This philosopher, wary of zealotry, was no Utopianist. "Even virtue," he counseled, "has a need for limits." A studious lawyer and vintner from Bordeaux's village of La Br??de, Montesquieu sought no leveling of society. He proposed a system of checks and balances whereby the fiats and whims of France's Bourbon throne were limited by established laws and the countervailing powers of a vital, widely dispersed aristocracy...
That's unfortunate because the Commission may have a chance to prevent the Federal Communications Commission from turning cable TV into a twin of broadcast TV. At the moment, though, the Commission is caught between the utopianist agitators, the FCC, and the special interests, all tugging in different directions. And the unique innovations in programming offered by cable TV will likely suffer...
From both utopianist points of view, cable technology is so important that it requires immediate decisive action. But these groups forget that the Mass. Cable Commission is not omnipotent. It cannot put an end to the cable TV industry, nor can it force the people of Massachusetts to become "true believers" in the wired nation concept. The Commission is only a licensing body. Its power, though not sufficient to make or break the industry, is however sufficient to materially affect the direction in which cable TV moves in Massachusetts...
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