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The Roman satirist Juvenal is famous for this question: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who watches the watchmen?)
The Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
When these two together, faith and reason, get together, when they shake hands they ward off the Gnostic catastrophe. And it's always a catastrophe, and it's always going to get taken over by tyrants or run itself into the destructive ground. This is the secret sauce of the West, you can write it down, it's faith bolstered and checked by reason and reason supported and checked by faith, that's what makes the West work.
The Gnostic Parasite | Dr. James Lindsay
Sovereign Nations
The market system delivers the goods people want, but those who make it work cannot readily explain why it is so. The socialist or communist system does not deliver the goods, but those who operate it can readily explain away its failure.
A Conflict of Visions
Thomas Sowell
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