The quote: "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." turns out to be apocryph

The quote: "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." turns out to be apocryphal according to the history stack exchange [1]. However, the quote is as true now as it was when we thought Richelieu said it. The author sounds pessimistic though. I think the the natural customer for a LifeLog apparatus today is someone who is just trying to get by in a crazy world, has a job managing processes, has nothing to hide, and who can forgive flawed individuals for getting swept up in events, or take a few knocks when the forces of history get out of hand, then be ready to carry on when the dust settles. There was an adage about how 20th century history could be described by how one-third of people could be relied upon to do nothing while another third attempted to exterminate a remaining third, and I think that middle group history relies upon will be the early adopters for convenient personal monitoring technologies like this. At the end of the day, some of the people being monitored by a LifeLog really are bad, and who couldn't be against something bad, except maybe bad people? Being against something bad costs nothing and you'd have to make an effort not to be. Bottom line is, you just have to leave the complicated stuff to the people who live it every day and have the background for it, and why rock the boat, it's bad, what are you going to do, defend it? It's just how the cookie crumbles, and net-net we get chevre and sundried tomato omlettes from broken eggs. It's not that they are against one side or the other, it's that they don't believe anything strongly enough to get involved, so they just go along. Maybe they get a job that uses their attention to detail, like organizing information, or scheduling trains. [1] https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/23785/what-did-richelieu-mean-by-his-six-lines-quote#28484 https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/23785/what-did-r...