The Reality of the Thing Versus the Idea of the Things

"People care about themselves more than the thing they are supposed to be doing," he says. "It's why it's so shocking to learn or think about any of these things in this way, from democracyto all the way down to education." He recalls being denied an economics minor because his grades made someone else look bad. 'What does it matter? Rightly? It matters not at all'