From Academy of Ideas YouTube channel
I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have some wild oats still left to sow before they become submissive members of society.
In this quote, Henry David Thoreau is saying that we must be broken before we can become enslaved. Are we now a broken population?
Politics is downstream from culture – that culture, in other words, determines the type of rules that emerges in society. And culture is downstream from technology.