Citizenship means every four years you put a mark somewhere and you go home and let other guys run the world. It's a very destructive ideology.

I mean, the liberal democrats aren't going to tell the average American, "Yeah, you're being shafted because of the policies that we've established over the years that we're maintaining now." That's not going to be an answer. And they're not getting answers from the left.

I am thinking of actual cases of adolescents, lets say, who think they have five hundred friends, because there are five hundred people on their Facebook account. But these are the kind of friends whose relation to you is that if you say 'I bought a sandwich'; they say 'did it taste good?' You know, that's a kind of interaction, but very different to having a real friend, somebody who you can actually talk to.

Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.

Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

What's called "liberal" in the intelectual culture means highly conformist to power, but mildly critical.