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At every juncture, we give citizens more information as the best way to give them control over their government and freedom in their lives. No one contemplated what might happen if people were given too much information.

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Commerce connects us, but we can lose track of that. Money represents the exchange. Free often breeds a boundless sense of entitlement. Ask Eugene Weekly, after their locks were Superglued shut in 1997 because they accepted a McDonald’s ad.

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Eugene has a downtown known for free love and paid parking. Springfield is seen as just the opposite.

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We’ve overlearned his lesson and built a view of the world and ourselves that insists that every action has a cause. We’ve conceived a world without caprice. There are no senseless acts, only misunderstood motives. We inhabit a chain of intersecting causes and effects and call it life. Modern man has simply swapped superstitions.

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It’s as if these students believe the bumper sticker. You can say you’ll think globally, act locally, but really. What can one person do? We prefer to rage against the machine, savoring the momentary power surge embedded in the rage.

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The fact is the hysteria and the data won’t both fit in the same brain at the same time. Hysteria is rock to data’s scissors. Hysteria wins every time. Urgent trumps important.

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Proximity is one of the few techniques left for random diversity. Our neighbors didn’t choose us. They got us.

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Thanks to the phone company, conversations no longer begin with “hello” and end with “good-bye.” And thanks to NPR, we’re abandoning the age-old “you’re welcome.”

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Thanks to the phone company, conversations no longer begin with “hello” and end with “good-bye.” And thanks to NPR, we’re abandoning the age-old “you’re welcome.”

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Our biology of self-awareness ensnares us — especially the smartest of us (the first shall be last).

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