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Society

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.

Society

Institutions are the rules of the game in a society or, more formally, are the humanly devised constraints that shape human interaction.

Society

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

Society

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

Society

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.

Society

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

Society

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

Society

I swear to the Lord I still can’t see why democracy means everybody but me.

Society

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Society

If monarchy is corrupting – and it is – wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

Society