Todd

“I saw a civilization that could destroy itself before it even reached the nearest star.”
― Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

“We live in a complicated and interdependent society; each of us is constantly affected by events thousands of miles away occurring to people he has never heard of. How, in such a society, can we meaningfully talk about each person being free to go his own way? The answer to this question lies in the concept of property rights.”
― David D. Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism

“Imagine walking into a control room with a bunch of people hunched over a desk with little dials, and that that control room will shape the thoughts and feelings of a billion people. This might sound like science fiction, but this actually exists right now, today.”
― Tristan Harris

“For not only is wiping out bias and hate impossible in principle, in practice eliminating prejudice through central authority means eliminating all but one prejudice—that of whoever is most politically powerful.”
― Jonathan Rauch, Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought