paul graham - the four quadrants of conformism

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  • no offense, but i can't help to notice all the spelling and grammar mistakes in your reply. here's a fix for the first sentence in square brackets: 'the degree to which a person can afford to [be] independent-minded depends on his intelligen[ce] and knowledge.'
  • now onto a higher level of error in your reply. again, no offense and thanks for the reply. yet i'm not sure one can conclude that 'the west lost free speech when it lost its conventions in the stupid 1960s.' the internet emerged at a civilian level and a global scale at around the 90s and raised a large group of free-thinking people along the way, especially in the third world. there are backlashes such as the chinese censorship, but even in that case china is much more free than the 90s due to the internet.
  • your ideal society would look more like huxley's dystopian 'brave new world' than plato's philosopher king.