We are capitalism made flesh.
For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.
Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.
Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some of its members.
Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.
Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.