In normal times, the party offering the most extreme version of popular ideas natters pointlessly. In revolutionary times, it wins.
A networked world is a legible world, and a legible world is an unfree world. We all have social credit scores now.
There are lies, there are damned lies, and then there are documentaries.
The Stages of Loss and Grief
1. People will understand you
2. People will understand your book
3. People will read your book
4. People will buy your book
Processing power is often said to be a poor substitute for understanding; in fact it is understanding that turns out to be the poor substitute for processing power.
There can be order without law, but not law without order.
Chico Marx: “Who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?”
Modern Social Science: “The plural of anecdote is not data.”
Untold human ingenuity has been expended to mask the taste of alcohol.
Only a tiny minority of the employees of a large corporation concern themselves, even in an abstract and indirect way, with profit and loss.
There is a modern branch of psychology, which deserves its own name, devoted to enumerating the defects of character in people who hold unauthorized opinions.