“Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.”
“It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.”
“virus writers lack the basic social and moral values and the “well-formed consciousness” that are the hallmarks of civilized modern societies.”
“Responsible parenting is NOT a crime. Responsible parenting is most valuable tool of our society.”
“As with our colleges, so with a hundred 'modern improvements'; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance.”
“Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.”