Porous society

The Futility of "Homeland Defense"

"Don't even try to close the holes in a country, and a society, designed to be porous"
David Carr
The Atlantic Magazine, January 2002

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Chi va con lo zoppo

Cum placidissimo et facillimo et minime anxio morosoque uiuendum est; sumuntur a conuersantibus mores et ut quaedam in contactos corporis uitia transiliunt, ita animus mala sua proximis tradit: ebriosus conuictores in amorem meri traxit, inpudicorum coetus fortem quoque et silice natum uirum emolliit, auaritia in proximos uirus suum transtulit.

Seneca, De Ira, Liber III, 8

Water in nets

Our luck, my friend, is like water in a net: pull the net and feel swollen, and when you pulled it, on the ground there is nothing.

Lev Nikolaevic Tolstoj (1828-1910)