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Informal relationships are not...

Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.

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The most basic inherent constr...

The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as in economic processes, it is not only impossible to attain perfection but irrational to seek perfection- or even to seek the 'best possible' result in each separate instance.

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Nothing as mundane as mere evi...

Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.

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The anointed don't like to tal...

The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy 'solutions' that get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.

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...each new generation born is...

...each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

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Cultures contain many cues and...

Cultures contain many cues and inducements to dissuade the individual from approaching ultimate limits, in much the same way that a special warning strip of land around the edge of a baseball field lets a player know that he is about to run into a concrete wall when he is preoccupied with catching the ball. The wider that strip of land and the more sensitive the player is to the changing composition of the ground under his feet as he pursues the ball, the more effective the warning. Romanticizing or lionizing as 'ind

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The demands of unbounded indiv...

The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.

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Where intellectuals have playe...

Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.

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Much of what sophisticates lof...

Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the 'complexity' of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.

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Facts do not 'speak for thems...

Facts do not 'speak for themselves.' They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

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Fundamentalist religion is the...

Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or 'playing God.' This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man.

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It's amazing how much panic on...

It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

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People who have time on their ...

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

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The march of science and techn...

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

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Organizational progress parall...

Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.

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Morality, like other inputs in...

Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.

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Unbounded morality ultimately ...

Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.

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There are few things more dish...

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

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To include freedom in the very...

To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.

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Life does not ask what we want...

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options

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