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Politics @CatholicUniv | Fellow @CSSatCUA Tweets auto-destruct after three months
May 18, 2018 9 tweets 4 min read
Google's motto is "Don't be evil," but human society make this impossible - you can't contain ideas.

And so you get left-liberal utopian ideas ("the selfish ledger") that can and will be easily, naturally used to authoritarian and dystopian ends.

theverge.com/2018/5/17/1734… The English School of International Relations has recently revived Trotsky's notion of "Uneven and Combined Development" - global interconnections mean that we cannot isolate developments in one social context from their repercussions into others.

…nandcombineddevelopment.wordpress.com