I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.
If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.
The only thing that makes change possible is the idea of developing some kind of institution, because the institutions will survive individuals.
You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
I have a vision that's about technology that empowers consumers over institutions.
You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
By bringing out into the public domain how human institutions actually behave, we can understand frankly, to a degree, for the first time the civilization that we actually have.
Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
If you ask why I do what I do - I want to make a difference. I don't just want to maintain the status quo. I want to help people, to work with institutions or create ones when they don't exist.
To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.
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