It's amusing that the same optical illusion has been discussed by Michael Abrash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-2dQoeqVVo#t=453 https://www.youtube.com/watch

It's amusing that the same optical illusion has been discussed by Michael Abrash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-2dQoeqVVo#t=453 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-2dQoeqVVo#t=453 and Alan Kay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTAghAJcO1o#t=1534 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTAghAJcO1o#t=1534 in talks on very different topics recently. > Thomas Paine said in Common Sense, instead of having the king be the law, why, we can have the law be the king. That was one of the biggest shifts, large scale shifts in history because he realised "hey, we can design a better society than tradition has and we can put it into law; so, we're just going to invert thousands of years of beliefs". Pfft, tell that to the 13th-century Venetians: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2007/HPL-2007-28R1.pdf http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2007/HPL-2007-28R1.pdf . Constitutionalism isn't that new an idea.