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“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class—-whether that be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.”

“You might think that [written words] spoke as if they had intelligence, but if you question them, wishing to know about their sayings, they always say only one and the same thing. And every word, when once it is written, is bandied about, alike among those who understand and those who have no interest in it.” -Plato, ‘Phaedrus’

The Langoliers: Weird! Unique take on a popular sci-fi concept. Did not enjoy Willem Dafoe's female voices or Nick's accent, although I loved everything else about the reading.