“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “An equation has two sides . . .” Bumper sticker

“An equation has two sides . . . Our Social Policies have one” – the dangers of mathematics and the dangers of government – both systems only need to be self-consistent to maximize their utility – and what’s more self-consistent than a dictatorship?

Mathematically speaking; the only “equals” left is: “conforming = survival.”