Monday, August 18, 2003

(seen from Margaret Wente's article Unplugged and Unprepared in the Aug. 16th Globe and Mail)

As they do not see, behind the benefits of civilization, marvels of invention and construction, which can only be maintained by great effort and foresight, they imagine that their role is limited to demanding these benefits peremptorily, as if they were natural rights.
--Jose Ortega y Gusset

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