Religion attenuates as crime is punished.
Jul 242015
Religion attenuates as crime is punished.
There are no virtues of omission.
To err is human; when our betters err, not to exult, divine.
We speak of rewriting history, as if there were an alternative.
Having money is frequently confused with not having to think about it.
Popular government demands that the people play all roles at once: oppressor and oppressed, ruler and ruled, disenfranchised by vote, silenced by cacophony.
The movies compress everything, except sex and violence.
Simplicity over complexity, history over fiction — the old regard these as aesthetic judgments; in fact they are mnemonic aids.
Stupidity at an immense age becomes instrumental rationality, just as crime on an immense scale becomes statecraft.
The to-read list is a stack, not a queue.