There was no debate. We all agreed that Team Social should take it on. But there were no practical considerations. When would we start? No idea. How would it work? No idea. But those concerns never came up, as they rarely do when young men get lost in their own ideas. To start big projects, you must have the capacity for delusion. All the rational people, despite their brilliance, are too reasonable to start crazy things. And working against us in this sense was that we'd spent the day walking in the footsteps of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, spurring us all to believe in our grandest
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