we can't give people freedom. we can't because we thought they didn't have it because they lacked the means, but that's not true. they lack the desire. plus, freedom is too mainstream
pushing a finger down on a scale might give us short term gains but once we move the scale moves violently the other way, and the blowback is huge. we must return to normalcy
Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience. -- Theodore Roosevelt
My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough.