Status Updates From A Canticle for Leibowitz

“Insofar as thought could be governed at all, it could only be commanded to follow what reason affrmed anyhow; command it otherwise, and it would not obey. Like any wise ruler, Abbot Arkos did not issue orders vainly, when to disobey was possible and to enforce was not possible. It was better to look the other way than to command ineffectually.”