Dissent requires the willingness to set aside a few evenings, dissidence the occasional weekend.
Nov 212017
Dissent requires the willingness to set aside a few evenings, dissidence the occasional weekend.
It is our former selves that we especially loathe.
Almost everyone means well, and this is terrifying.
There is no freedom to speak without the freedom to be silent.
Authority depends on prestige, or failing that, police.
Let us give thanks to all who disagree with us stupidly, without whom we would have so little to say.
Love is mostly sex and marriage is mostly talk.
I regret nothing but consequences.
Someone who understands politics is about as likely to set up as a pundit as someone who can predict the future is to set up as a psychic.
Civilization creates leisure, leisure promotes folly, and folly ends civilization.