“If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.”
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.