> Our position as beneficiaries of the open society requires us to serve as guardians of it. The failure to live up to that ideal reminds me of this prescient

> Our position as beneficiaries of the open society requires us to serve as guardians of it. The failure to live up to that ideal reminds me of this prescient Dune quote: When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.