My fear is that many institutions will eventually alter how they treat people who refuse to self-track. There are all sorts of political and moral implications here, and I'm not sure that we have grappled with any of them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Self-government won't work without self-discipline.
I don't feel uncomfortable in forbidding institutions, and work with, say, prisons or psychiatric institutions could be one of the things that evolve out of the Laureateship.
When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them.
My hope is that we're going to end up with a far more tolerant society, where the erosion of privacy, to the extent it erodes, will be offset by increased tolerance.
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
That's the problem with the United States. It believes it can control everybody's behavior.
It's increasingly clear that governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such bodies view the defense of their secrets as a desperate matter of institutional survival, so much so that the state has gone to extraordinary lengths to punish and/or threaten to punish anyone who so much as tiptoes across the informational line.
Broken institutions are an opportunity rather than a time to go home.
If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.