Sure, up to a point. Most products, services and *ideas* are built on the back of others work though, and the nature of most notes is pithiness and shorthand. Just an opinion, but I understand yours.

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Agreed, begrudgingly under the systems on offer - as Sowell says there aren't any decisions, only trade-offs. Elite theory also says the same - which out of elite group's multiple views fit best with one's outlook with minimal interference.

@mike you might be interested in the Libertarian Hans Hermann Hoppe's "Democracy - The God That Failed" which discusses this in a more modern context, and makes points that monarchy is a flawed but better system because of alignment of a monarch with long term benefit for a country, rather than the "Teflon shoulders managerialism" short term politics many states suffer from, even though his ultimate best form would be universal sovereignty. I think you can get it for free from Mises.org

Memes, maybe?

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Gm @Stu have a good one too

Cognitive dissonance is a one helluva hard son of a bitch!

Translation: "We need to put all the data in a unified, centralized honeypot because we can look after it with a proven track record, profile you, you can trust us and fragmented (decentralized) data is so passé - who on Earth would want to decentralize..."

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The Powers That Be are so generous, they put it on for free! 😉😏

😁 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQMWlFYm-5Q