korrents

Our readingWhat is a korrent?

When a long train of abuses makes a ruler's design visible, people can be expected to rouse themselves and change who governs

Drawn from what John Locke said

What these subjects mean

government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

What John Locke actually said

  1. John Locke English philosopher (1632 to 1704)
    But if a long train of abuses, prevarications and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people, and they cannot but feel what they lie under, and see whither they are going; it is not to be wondered, that they should then rouze themselves, and endeavour to put the rule into such hands which may secure to them the ends for which government was at first erected

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