All Societies Are Based On

Student Loans Are Destroying The Imagination Of Youth. If There’s A Way Of A Society Committing Mass Suicide, What Better Way Than To Take All The Youngest, Most Energetic, Creative, Joyous People In Your Society And Saddle Them With, Like $50,000 Of Debt So They Have To Be Slaves? There Goes Your Music. There Goes Your Culture. There Goes Everything New That Would Pop Out. And In A Way, This Is What’s Happened To Our Society. We’re A Society That Has Lost Any Ability To Incorporate The Interesting, Creative And Eccentric People.

Aristotle [would] Probably Conclude Most Americans, For All Intents And Purposes, Are Slaves.

If You Want To Minimize The Possibility Of Unexpected Breakthroughs, Tell People They Will Receive No Resources At All Unless They Spend The Bulk Of Their Time Competing Against Each Other To Convince You They Know In Advance What They Are Going To Discover.

It's True That Most American Citizens Think Of Themselves As Living In A Democratic Country. But When Was The Last Time That Any Americans Actually Sat Down And Came To A Collective Decision? Maybe If They Are Ordering Pizzas, But Basically Never.

Consensus Isn't Just About Agreement. It's About Changing Things Around: You Get A Proposal, You Work Something Out, People Foresee Problems, You Do Creative Synthesis. At The End Of It, You Come Up With Something That Everyone Thinks Is Okay. Most People Like It, And Nobody Hates It.