12 Apr
2012
12 Apr
'12
2:23 p.m.
I consider RIPE, more than anyting, a democracy. Alexis de Tocqueville has written some excellent work on the dangers of democracies. “In America, the majority draws a formidable circle around thought. Inside those limits, the writer is free; but unhappiness awaits him if he dares to leave them. It is not that he has to fear an auto-da-fe, but he is the butt of moritifications of all kinds of persecutions every day.”