We moderns have mastered the seemingly impossible trick of feeling superior to ourselves.
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You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau
The greater good is distant and speculative: the lesser evil required to achieve it is immediate and certain.
It wasn’t funny the first time either.
All popular conceptions of genius are meticulously constructed to flatter mediocrity.
Today we publish all of our thoughts, except the interesting ones.
The conservative is a degenerate reactionary who, unable to decide where to set the clock, defaults to now.
It is astonishing what a lab coat will let you get away with.
Dissent requires the willingness to set aside a few evenings, dissidence the occasional weekend.
Let us give thanks to all who disagree with us stupidly, without whom we would have so little to say.
I regret nothing but consequences.