Blueprints for making the EU more democratic have often focused on giving even more powers to MEPs – on the naïve assumption that the parliament would always automatically be pro-European.
I have been personally vilified with insults, which I regard as naïve and offensive.
He thinks this might have something to do with the rise of the internet, which the book inadvertently documents: its earliest photographs come from 1994, an era that was "a little bit more friendly, a little bit more naïve", when the internet was more discussed than used, when a feature about it in Time magazine still had to open by explaining what the web was.
Jonathan was naïve to think he could remain president without the support of PDP godfathers like Obasanjo.
It reflected a book-learned view of unregulated market power which failed to ring her alarm bells as Scargill's primitive notions of class struggle did, and was just as naïve.
He is planning to direct again, too: his adaptation of Jon Hotten's The Years of the Locust, the true story of a naïve boxer and his manipulative promoter, is set to go into production next year.
We may not agree with such action, but it seems naïve to be surprised by it or to pretend it's something only other teams do.
Successive governments have tried to solve the north's problems through blind, naïve attempts at modernisation, informed by the churlish and discourteous perception of the north as an economic backwater.
I know this will sound naïve, but so be it: I still believe that making such challenging arguments on difficult issues like immigration is the sort of thing that politicians should do; it's the difference between leading and following.
How also to understand well-intentioned people like Tim Costello, Paris Aristotle or Robert Manne, who undermine their long moral commitment to the poor or asylum seekers by now advocating naïve and immoral policies?
As Sebastian Rich explained, it's vital to keep Somalia in the news: "I may be naïve, but every now and again I hope that some pictures will strike a chord with a politician, or someone down the line, and something will change".
