The individual is the bearer of this creative activity of the mind and therefore remains the decisive factor in all future Western developments. This holds true regardless of the fact that individuals co-operate and mutually determine the spiritual democracy in which they live.

Official citizens only do capital-P Politics once every few years; Citizens do small-p politics pretty much every day. As Citizens, we are not our votes: we are our ideas, our energy, our resources.

It’s like what John Adams once wrote about generational progress and what we owe our kids. I love the quote so much I wrote it down in my wallet. Here it is, let me read it to you all: ‘I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, na