• The quotation to which Doctorow refers is attributed to Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (in French, Vous avez beau ne pas vous occuper de la politique, la politique s'occupera de vous).
As someone once said, "Just because you're not interested in politics does not mean that politics won't be interested in you." And staying away from politics either because you think tech will make laws irrelevant or because there's no good way to influence laws just opens the field for people who don't cherish either of those illusions to make things very bad indeed.
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "As someone once said, "Just because you're not interested in politics does not mean that politics won't be interested in you." And staying away from politics either because you think tech will make laws irrelevant or because there's no good way to influence laws just opens the field for people who don't cherish either of those illusions to make things very bad indeed." in the context of "Cory Doctorow on the Open Rights Group (Time: 3:25).
• The quotation to which Doctorow refers is attributed to Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (in French, Vous avez beau ne pas vous occuper de la politique, la politique s'occupera de vous)." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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