Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

If you're looking at what makes a functional society, it helps to have some history to look back to.

We don't figure out these rituals and traditions that we have. They just sort of emerge organically through time,

like knowledge that has crystallized over time in our

actions, of what you think is contradictory to nature, you should assume that nature is right

and you were wrong.

Taxes as they're presently implemented are much more a feature of the progressive era, and they

are of the history of the Occident up until that point.

I think once it's passed and once it's put into practice as a social scheme, it becomes

something that's going to be constantly meddled with because it's not sacrosanct.

It's not like you can't murder, you can't steal.

America up until Jackson had these landed voting rules.

Were it just people who kind of were able to think of the future voting, we probably would

just be a nuclear economy by now.

We're energy would be too cheap commuter.

Instead, we're like building solar panels on farmland that are then destroyed by hail.

Things have always worked, even if you don't understand why.

How do you think about the interaction of tradition and innovation, perhaps to the context of Bitcoin and gold? Yeah, so you certainly don't

want to be on horseback when the machine makes its appearance.

You've got a bio on your ex profile.

I'm sorry, a quote on your ex profile.

And it says,

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