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“In the new media age, everybody is a historian, or a scientist, or a preacher, or a sage. And if everyone is an expert, then nobody is, and the worst thing you can be in a society where everybody is an expert is, well, an actual expert.”
― Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
― Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
“He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.”
― Bureaucracy
― Bureaucracy
“It is time to realize, however, that the real dangers to America today come not from the newly rich people of East Asia but from our own ideological rigidity, our deep-seated belief in our own propaganda.”
― Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
― Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
“Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will”
― Omnipotent Government
― Omnipotent Government
“The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.”
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Steve’s 2025 Year in Books
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