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This choice of possibilities is due in no small part to the market, and the peril we face is that so much choice can create a protean self, lacking binding commitments to anyone or anything, a self for whom the bottom line of every social contract is the escape clause.

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And maybe the wrong person was winning or they were having too good of a time, but whatever it was that this person saw, with this black person and this white person playing checkers, they felt the entire foundation of Southern civilization was in peril.

It's no wonder that scrawny second-born Jack Kennedy fought so hard to compete with his fitter firstborn brother, Joe, often at his peril, at one point, engaging in a bicycle race around the house that resulted in a collision costing John 28 stitches.

It's like doing extra-vehicular activity in space, but at much greater distances, and at much greater physical peril.

And I look at this thing, and, I don't know, I get a lot of hope that maybe this smaller, networked, open world that our kids inherit might be a better one, and that this new age of networked intelligence could be an age of promise fulfilled and of peril unrequited.

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