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Stability Without Openness or Progress Is Slow Decay Made to Look Respectable.
After spending time in places like Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, and to some extent Brazil, I came to a hard conclusion: closed and protected systems do not only damage the economy. They also damage everyday life, public expectations, business culture, and even the way people think about what is normal. This is not about saying that…
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Settling
Settling down makes us easy to control. It feeds old feudal habits and today’s state–corporate order. If we didn’t choose a calm, well-fed life, we’d be harder to rule by people who drift into high office by chance. We relax, and the seams split — first inside us, then around us. Humans became human by…