Stephenson Quote
In honor of today's recall election, I shall attach an interesting quote from Neal Stephenson. This quote was taken from a recent article about Neal's new book, Quicksilver.
The twentieth century was one in which limits on state power were
removed in order to let the intellectuals run with the ball, and they
screwed everything up and turned the century into an abattoir…
We Americans are the only ones who didn't get creamed at some point
during all of this. We are free and prosperous because we have
inherited political and value systems fabricated by a particular set
of eighteenth-century intellectuals who happened to get it right. But
we have lost touch with those intellectuals.