The period from 1980 to 2000 illustrates how well markets can perform when freed from even some of the collectivist constraints of the past.

If you’re not bound by tradition, you can step back and ask if there is a better way of doing something.

For some reason it makes people very uncomfortable, possibly because our society is still very tied to archaic biblical principles that we try to force on each other and force on our children.

There the excitability and impatience of bondage was a reflection from its history into its literature. Its expression was consistent with its feeling.

They can bring us freedom in our relationships or bind us to them.