Signs of civilizational decay abound

Watch if you can stomach it, and understand why people have died for the ideal of freedom, the ideal of placing severe limits on the use of power. It’s because, if those limits are extended, and the restrictions loosened, casual cruelty is inflicted by those who hold power. Callous indifference to the humanity of those around them is the natural state of these thugs.

Bonus tweet

I’ve been saying this from the outset: most people are horrible at risk assessment. Unknowingly taking risks with a high probability of death/injury may be a trait that works in our favor in the long run, but when we are bombarded with relentless propaganda about a single moderate threat, we wildly overreact. We would never leave our homes if the news blasted the mortality stats of driving, eating, drinking, walking, etc.

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