Liberal democracy crawled out of history’s dustbin, cleaned itself up and conquered the world. The supermarket proved to be far stronger than the gulag.

On the collective level, governments, firms and organisations are encouraged to measure their success in terms of growth, and to fear equilibrium as if it were the Devil. On the individual level, we are inspired to constantly increase our income and our standard of living. Even if you are quite satisfied with your current conditions, you should strive for more. Yesterday’s luxuries become today’s necessities. If once you could live well in a three-bedroom apartment with one car and a single desktop, today you need a five-bedroom house with two cars and a host of iPods, tablets and smartphones.

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The same tools that enable doctors to quickly identify and cure new illnesses may also enable armies and terrorists to engineer even more terrible diseases and doomsday pathogens. It is therefore likely that major epidemics will continue to endanger humankind in the future only if humankind itself creates them, in the service of some ruthless ideology. The era when humankind stood helpless before natural epidemics is probably over. But we may come to

Вот почему из двух кандидатов, одинаково пригодных для данной должности, выбирают более глупого. Умный пусть выполняет иную работу, требующую больше

Гарна фраза про обраних :)

Теории влияют на сам способ постановки проблемы, а не только на отдельные предположения, используемые для объяснений. Способ формулирования проблемы влияет на то, какие именно вопросы ставятся, и на направление поиска при эмпирических исследованиях.

Без мониторинга не может быть надежных обязательств; без надежных обязательств нет смысла предлагать новые правила.