There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

Long before the technology revolution there was declassification of documents and I've spent quite a lot of time studying declassified internal documents and written a lot about them. In fact, anybody who's worked through the declassified record can see very clearly that the reason for classification is very rarely to protect the state or the society from enemies. Most of the time it is to protect the state from its citizens, so they don't know what the government is doing.

If the NAACP were to impose a control of something towards all, then I would staunchly oppose it.

Technology is usually fairly neutral. It’s like a hammer, which can be used to build a house or to destroy someone’s home. The hammer doesn’t care. It is almost always up to us to determine whether the technology is good or bad.

Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.

The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit.

The US health-care system is a complete scandal. It's got twice the costs of comparable countries and some of the worst outcomes.