Confrontation at San Francisco State

The open society—insofar as it actually is open and fulfills its claims—is a standing invitation to trouble. Its liberties, tolerance, and constraints upon powerful minorities invite attack, license, and violence by the aggrieved, short-tempered, and politically unskilled. Its ideological commitment to compromise and law invite tests of its physical strength and its willingness to assume risks. The open society is likely to be misused as much as it is used; in many circumstances, it operates as an imperfect mechanism—not equally or immediately open to all its members. If the open society has a chronic disability, however, it is its difficulty in recognizing and adjusting quickly to the new technologies of its assailants.

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