政府下的人的自由是拥有一个普遍适用的常规生活准则,而不受另一个人的多变、不确定和武断意愿的支配。
If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.