But hanging onto an illusion is a very dangerous illness.

I have to accept that there are no dumb users, that there's only dumb products.

But the system has moved me on because, as my family started to discover, there is no long term concept in the health care system.

Who am I, indeed, and why should I accept people reducing me and the richness of my identity to only one of its dimensions?

I find it difficult to accept those who tend to describe the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact as only a measure to build up Soviet national security.

As one well known Japanese intellectual told me during a recent visit to Tokyo, I can accept constitutional revision in the long run, but not while Abe is prime minister.

I never accepted that reproach of the EU and its institutions, but I do see a new and dangerous deficit within the Union a trust deficit, both among governments, and among the citizens of various member countries. Indeed, if today s euro banknotes included a motto, as dollars do, it could well be, In Europe We Distrust.

Along the way, I found that I was no longer in search of an example in literature, in historiography a figure to help come to terms with the death of Aaron Swartz. I had my example had it as an experience, the unexpected experience of open access to a scholarly archive that had till then been locked away from the public behind the monolithic gates of one institution or another.