I reminisce on park jams, my man was shot for his sheep coat chocolate blunts will make me see him drop in my weed smoke - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

LOCALISM,1 Governments come & go, bureaucrats stay. Ministries & agencies aren't run by ministers & transitory figureheads, but by a "deep local microstate" of civil servants who have been there for decades & "own" the inside. Worse: EPA was run by Monsanto, FAA by Boeing.

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

"Author discussed what he calls the "narrative fallacy." This refers to our "limited ability" to look at a sequence of facts "without weaving an explanation into them.