″ Part of our civilization was being, in a certain sense, stupid: there were trillion-dollar bills lying around for the taking. But they weren’t trillion-dollar bills that just anyone could walk over and pick up. ”
This is a great explanation for the appeal of politics: it’s about trying to take over those parts of our civilization that are displaying this kind of stupidity in order to get them to not do that so much.
″ Part of our civilization was being, in a certain sense, stupid: there were trillion-dollar bills lying around for the taking. But they weren’t trillion-dollar bills that just anyone could walk over and pick up. ”
This is a great explanation for the appeal of politics: it’s about trying to take over those parts of our civilization that are displaying this kind of stupidity in order to get them to not do that so much.
Or to get them to do that in the politician’s (and his in-group’s) favor.