You, the strong, have I loved, though the marks of your iron hoofs are yet upon my flesh.
But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
If you're not lost, you're not much of an explorer.
If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then. . . ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
The hard part is choosing to change what needs changing.
To stand up for someone was to stitch your fate into the lining of theirs.
When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
I have never understood the importance of having children memorize battle dates. It seems like such a waste of mental energy. Instead, we could teach them important subjects such as How the Mind Works, How to Handle Finances, How to Invest Money for Financial Security, How to be a Parent, How to Create Good Relationships, and How to Create and Maintain Self-Esteem and Self-Worth. Can you imagine what a whole generation of adults would be like if they had been taught these subjects in school along with their regular curriculum?