Hope Does Not Always Require Probability.

But Groundless Hope, Like Unconditional Love, Is The Only Kind Worth Having.

Hope Does Not Always Require Probability.

One Can Imagine The Government's Problem. This Is All Pretty Magical Stuff To Them. If I Were Trying To Terminate The Operations Of A Witch Coven, I'd Probably Seize Everything In Sight. How Would I Tell The Ordinary Household Brooms From The Getaway Vehicles?

If Someone Like Karl Rove Had Wanted To Neutralize The Most Creative, Intelligent, And Passionate Members Of His Opposition, He'd Have A Hard Time Coming Up With A Better Tool Than Burning Man. Exile Them To The Wilderness, Give Them A Culture In Which Alpha Status Requires Months Of Focus And Resource-consumptive Preparation, Provide Them With Metric Tons Of Psychotropic Confusicants, And Then... Ignore Them. It's A Pretty Safe Bet That They Won't Be Out Registering Voters, Or Doing Anything That Might Actually Threaten Electoral Change, When They Have An Art Car To Build.

With The Development Of The Internet...we Are In The Middle Of The Most Transforming Technological Event Since The Capture Of Fire. I Used To Think That It Was Just The Biggest Thing Since Gutenberg, But Now I Think You Have To Go Back Farther.