Anyone can agree that things should be fair, and the world just. The way to get there is always the real problem. - Kim Stanley Robinson

And all this vast articulated structure of a culture stood out in the open sun of day, accessible to anyone who wanted to join, who was willing and able to do the work; there were no secrets, there were no closed shops, and if every lab and every specialization had its politics, that was just politics; and in the end politics could not materially affect the structure itself, the mathematical edifice of their understanding of the phenomenal world.

Most ignorance is by choice, you know, and so ignorance is very telling about what really matters to people.

Well, societies without a plan, that was history so far; but history so far had been a nightmare, a huge compendium of examples to be avoided.