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Often, the elements are mixed, but published as if everything is compulsory.
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Set in a repressive future society, everything not forbidden is compulsory.
Commenting on the discovery of the remarkable system, Virginia Trimble of the University of California, Irvine, recalls a famous principle put forward by particle physicist Murray Gell-Mann: "Everything not forbidden is compulsory," Trimble says.
Take into account every fragile sensibility or unintended consequence on the other side of the world, and public discourse will shrink to vanishing.The proviso a vital one is that not everything that is permitted is compulsory or desirable.
Ursula K Le Guin has just reviewed the book for the Guardian, and like just about everything she writes, her review is compulsory reading.
There are huge cultural barriers anyway and then you have to remember this is a regime where everything that isn't forbidden is compulsory, so it's difficult to know what their state of mind really is".
"Medical marijuana could revolutionise human health... just like this sloth!" In his definitive King Arthur novel The Once and Future King, TH White suggested that totalitarianism could be defined as "Everything which is not forbidden is compulsory".
More grog is compulsory.
Primary education is compulsory.
Voting is compulsory.
Scripture memorisation is compulsory.
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