Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.

You slight yourself when you're easily slighted.

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

Whatever you subsidize you get more of.

The more welfare, the more crime.

Inequality promotes progress.

Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance.