Its faces are as legion as its names, but its disguises all spring from one and the same root, the singular notion that you can get something for nothing.
The very idea that you can get knowledge without the work of inquiry, that you can get good at inquiry without the work of accumulating experience, that you can govern a complex society on a shoestring.
Of course, only real losers fall for that, don't they?
Jon Awbrey
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