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“I suppose even then I still believed in a negative liberty. A ‘freedom’ that, if anything, meant the absence of external coercion.”

“…ours was not a world in need of protection from the threat of too much terrorism. We were instead terrorized by the threat of too much protection.”

'It’s not even about the gun, I thought. What was at stake were flows of information: as long as these could be governed, enumerated, patented for sale or control, the state form and its thought were secure. Preserve the levies and hierarchies of official knowledge, and the universe is safe with just enough meaning.'