Their primary skill is getting elected, which is more like becoming popular on Twitter than creating Twitter. The banks they bail out are too big to fail, and the shoes they inherit are too big to fill. (View Highlight)
Note: Today’s politicians are not builders
We can also think of this as read-only culture, the ability to repeat what an ancestor has handed down – but not recreate it from first principles. (View Highlight)
Note: Read-only culture. Repeat but not create
how do we go about founding alternatives to the ultimate inherited institutions, namely cities and states? (View Highlight)
