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If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways... and we all--can be "liberated." The social disintegration which has followed in the wake of such liberation has seldom provoked any serious reconsideration of the whole set of assumptions--the vision--which led to such disasters. That vision is too well insulated from feedback

Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell

Liberals. Politics

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