Games, Law, Democracy, Drugs
“Law is so close to games, in that games set up rules and structures, and try to set them up around specific rules and behaviors. The reason the law is dismissive of games is that it recognizes a similarity and wants to say, 'No, that's not what we're doing.'"
- Unknown Author, Wired magazine 2006.
“Naturally, the common people don’t want war, but after all, it is leaders of a country who determine policy and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.”
- Hermann Goering, Hitler’s Reich-Marshall at the Nuremberg Trials after WWII
"The framers of our republic were obsessed with avoiding what they called dependency. But what they meant by this word is likely lost on most Americans today. Most of us think of dependency as addiction to alcohol, drugs, foreign oil. The framers had a much more basic idea: a citizen was considered dependent when he was not free to act in the public good because his own well-being depended on a particular result. "Non-dependency" meant being able to choose what was right without worrying about personal consequences- no agenda other than a democratic one."
- Lawrence Lessig, Wired magazine Nov. 2006
"I tried but they didn't listen."
-Shelly Watson on 'Say No to Drugs.'
Troubling Quotes
Saturday, December 2, 2006
