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Quotes from Wizards of Ozymandias: Reflections on the Decline and Fall — Butler D. Shaffer

1935–2019 United States

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The hubris that attends all political programs of central planning is fueled by an ignorance of the forces of chaos.

Wizards of Ozymandias: Reflections on the Decline and Fall (2012)

It is this institutional group-think that now finds itself threatened by new technologies that do not lend themselves to centralized controls. The Internet and other unstructured tools will continue to destabilize the herds that the institutional order has worked so feverishly to keep confined to their assigned pastures.

Wizards of Ozymandias: Reflections on the Decline and Fall (2012)

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