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I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own.
– Number Six (Patrick McGoohan) in classic TV show The Prisoner
To be governed is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censored, checked, valued, enrolled, by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.
—Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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I like this one even better:
To be governed is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censored, checked, valued, enrolled, by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.
—Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
(courtesy of the Cato Institute: To be governed…)
What a great series The Prisoner was! I wish I could watch it again.