3-1c3c1 To create is to recombine. Innovation happens when ideas have sex (either between people or with one’s past ideas). Exchange is to technology as sex is to evolution.
3-1c3c Keep each ideas separately, because there is nothing absolute and necessary in the connections I make between them
4-1a4b3a Constitution formalized the shift of national governance from individual rulers to written law
4-1a4b4 If you write down a set of ideas (including its internal relations and value hierarchy), you can have a conversation with that (which is almost yourself from the past)