>>4287527 (pb)
>Q uses 'shudder quotes' around "Guardians". This suggests irony (introduces ambiguity: double meaning, unusual meaning, or changing meanings depending upon context)
"Guardians" strikes me as coming from Plato's Republic. A guardian is, for Plato, one of the dual aspects of (political) leaqders that he thinks should be looked for if we plan to implement justice (plato's justice is much different from the procedural justice of our republic…). The other required aspect is the "philosopher". any chance of righteous rule requires leadership that is at once of the guardian type as well as the philosopher type.