> Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. They may be the gentle philosopher whose name is in the Blue Book, or Bill from City College to whom democracy gave a chance to design airplanes—you’ll never make Nazis out of them. But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis.

> Believe me, nice people don’t go Nazi. Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion. It is something in them.

> Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi. It’s an amusing game. Try it at the next big party you go to.

Back an animal against the wall and out come the fangs. The rate at which "once in a lifetime" events have unfolded in the past two decades is making it increasingly hard for society to mint kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, and most importantly, _secure_ people.

Florida House Bill 945 would create a statewide “counterintelligence and counter-terror” unit with authority to analyze “patterns of life,” gather “actionable intelligence,” and even execute arrests—all while defining an “adversary intelligence entity” so broadly it can include any person whose “views or opinions” are deemed harmful to the interests of the state.

> Not my skills. Not my ideas. Not the quality of my work. Google.

> What you write. How you write it. What you build. What you don't build.

> It's not a tool you use. It's a landlord you try to keep happy.

Imagine you suddenly had $100MM. You never have to work again and can do practically whatever you want. But most of us appreciate experiences with the company of others.

Who would you be able to spend time with? Most of your friends and family would still have to work. Of course, you could offer them to leave their jobs and give them money so they won't have to worry and they could spend time with you. But then it leads to the social feedback issue, so even those closest to you don't want to rock the boat.