“A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd that understands the reasons for its discontent and knows the remedies is a vital community, and it will have to be reckoned with. I would rather go before the government with two people who have a competent understanding of an issue, and who therefore deserve a hearing, than with two thousand who are vaguely dissatisfied.”
Wendell Berry (The failure that was Occupy)
“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
