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The fundamental principle of political life in the Republic had been brutally illustrated: ‘that no one citizen should be permitted an eminence so formidable that it prevents him from being questioned by the laws’.12 Even
“The technological race between the US and China should be more like a race to win more Olympic gold medals—with proper rules and constraints—than like a downward spiral toward confrontation.”
― The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
― The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
“There is something going on in America that is different . . . and particularly toxic for the working class,” which they ascribe to oppressive monopolies and American institutions that have consistently weakened unions and empowered employers, allowing them to profit at the expense of ordinary workers.”
― The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
― The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
“When Hitler became chancellor in 1933, he claimed that Germany was the successor to the Holy Roman Empire that had dominated Central Europe for a thousand years. These leaders believed that their new system would reclaim the past with the ideology of the future, welding pure men into a military and social machine that moved all as one, while pure women supported society as mothers. They set out to eliminate those who didn’t fit their model and to destroy the messy, inefficient democracy that stood in their way.”
― Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
― Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
“In the twenty-first century, one state is in the process of dominating the export and consumption of rare metals. That state is China.”
― The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies
― The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies
“Fermi’s Paradox, named after the Italian American physicist Enrico Fermi, who in a discussion of alien life in the universe said, “But where is everyone?” Mathematically it seemed logical there were other civilizations, but the lack of any evidence raised the uncomfortable possibility that the Earth’s human species might be the only example of consciousness. “We’ve got this delicate candle of consciousness flickering here, and it may be the only instance of consciousness, so it’s essential we preserve it,” Musk says. “If we are able to go to other planets, the probable lifespan of human consciousness is going to be far greater than if we are stuck on one planet that could get hit by an asteroid or destroy its civilization.”
― Elon Musk
― Elon Musk
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