Billmon has a great piece comparing the view of people ignoring the data mining with the Leviathan.
The text of Thomas Hobbes’s magnum opus is tough sledding because English has changed a lot since 1660, but the essential point is that people must reasonably accept that the ruler is allowed to do whatever he wants because society would sink into anarchy without his protection. The short version is: father knows best.
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