As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.
Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.
Life is short, so why waste it doing something dumb?
No, you can't force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that's enough.
Now everyone has a license to speak, it's a question of who gets heard.
Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every seventh grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the seventh grade curriculum.
The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.
There is no justice in following unjust laws.
Think deeply about things. Don't just go along because that's the way things are or that's what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.
What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?
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