Culture & Empire: Digital Revolution

Freedom is being able to do interesting things with other people

Without the freedom to do interesting things with other people, we are reduced to slavery.

A language is like a social credit card, and a pragmatic person learns as many languages as he or she can afford. One should never belong to a language

Religion has its uses, like all our social instincts (this is my story, take it or leave it). It lets us delegate responsibility for disasters that have no logical explanation, so we can keep our logic safe for things we do understand.