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In These Times, The Hardest Task For Social Or Political Activists Is To Find A Way To Get People To Wonder Again About What We All Believe Is True. The Challenge Is To Sow Doubt.

Creation Always Involves Building Upon Something Else. There Is No Art That Doesn't Reuse. And There Will Be Less Art If Every Reuse Is Taxed By The Appropriator.

As More And More Citizens Express What They Think, And Defend It In Writing, That Will Change The Way People Understand Public Issues. It Is Easy To Be Wrong And Misguided In Your Head. It Is Harder When The Product Of Your Mind Can Be Criticized By Others. Of Course, It Is A Rare Human Who Admits That He Has Been Persuaded That He Is Wrong. But It Is Even Rarer For A Human To Ignore When He Has Been Proven Wrong. The Writing Of Ideas, Arguments, And Criticism Improves Democracy.

Remember The Refrain: We Always Build On The Past; The Past Always Tries To Stop Us. Freedom Is About Stopping The Past, But We Have Lost That Ideal.

All Around Us Are The Consequences Of The Most Significant Technological, And Hence Cultural, Revolution In Generations.