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The Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman is credited with insisting that ‘what we can’t make, we don’t understand’.
Life on the Edge
Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden
You think that because you understand “one” that you must therefore understand “two” because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand “and.” —Sufi teaching story
Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows
“to check or bypass representative government” via direct democracy simply empowers “a new class of election entrepreneurs” by delegating to them the tasks of “formulating policy, organizing the effort to get something on the ballot, and providing voters with the information and cues they need to make a decision.” Whereas “average citizens will sporadically give input to government when something really matters to them,” Cain (2015, 8–9) noted, “organized interests are a constant presence.”
Democracy for Realists
Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels
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