Freedom Is Something You Have To Take

If The Best Way To Learn To Succeed Is To Fail As Fast As Possible, Then The Second-best Way Is To Watch Someone Else Fail As Fast As Possible. Watching Someone Else Screw Up Is A Kind Of Rehearsal For Your Own Eventual Downfall. A Close Observation Of Someone Else's Attempt To Resolve A Difficulty Is A Great Way To Acquire Real-world Insight Into Whether And When To Deploy Their Method In Your Own Times Of Trouble.

If You've Never Programmed A Computer, You Should. There's Nothing Like It In The Whole World. When You Program A Computer, It Does Exactly What You Tell It To Do. It's Like Designing A Machine — Any Machine, Like A Car, Like A Faucet, Like A Gas-hinge For A Door — Using Math And Instructions. It's Awesome In The Truest Sense: It Can Fill You With Awe.

Governments Are Instituted Among Men, Deriving Their Just Powers From The Consent Of The Governed, That Whenever Any Form Of Government Becomes Destructive Of These Ends, It Is The Right Of The People To Alter Or Abolish It, And To Institute New Government, Laying Its Foundation On Such Principles, And Organizing Its Powers In Such Form, As To Them Shall Seem Most Likely To Effect Their Safety And Happiness.

The United States Of America Was A Pirate Nation For The First One Hundred Years Of Its Existence, Ripping Off The Patents And Trademarks Of The Imperial European Powers It Had Liberated Itself From By Blood. By Keeping Their Gdp At Home, The U.s. Revolutionaries Were Able To Bootstrap Their Nation Into An Industrial Powerhouse. Now, It Seems, Their Descendants Are Bent On Ensuring That No Other Country Can Pull The Same Trick Off.

The Real Damage From Terrorist Attacks Doesn't Come From The Explosion. The Real Damage Is Done After The Explosion, By The Victims, Who Repeatedly And Determinedly Attack Themselves, Giving Over Reason In Favor Of Terror... Terrorism Is About Magnifying One Mediagenic Act Of Violence Into One Hundred Billion Acts Of Terrorized Authoritarian Idiocy.