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The tower of babel

The search perfectly straight line is an activity at once impious and inevitable part of human life. implies the punishment of the wicked (the wrath of the gods, and social isolation), and his reward is not the achievement but I made the attempt. Therefore, it is an appropriate activity for individuals, but not to companies. For an individual who is compelled to do it, the reward can exceed the punishment and defeat inevitable. The penitent can hope or even expect, that will fall as a hero wounded in the arms of a caring and forgiving society. And even the unrepentant can reconcile himself with the powerful need of its momentum, though, as Pormeteo must suffer. But for a society, punishment is a chaos of conflicting ideals, the disturbance of a common life, and the reward is the popularity that corresponds to a monumental folly. A mesure que l'humanité will degrade perfectionne l'homme. Or, to interpret the myth more lightly: human life is a gamble, but while the individual should be allowed to bet according to its inclination (the favorite or the other), society should always support the bench.

Oakeshott, Michael (2000, 427-28) "The tower of babel" in "Rationalism in politics and other essays" FCE.