From where I sit, the problem with defunding the police isn’t that the police do so much to protect us, it’s that we’ve been so deprived of the means to protect ourselves.
Your Democratic neighbors won’t be ordered to vote for laws that ostracize you from society, steal your property, or send you away to a concentration camp. They will do it burning with pride.
We’ve been worried for 100 years what will happen when we finally succeed in making machines human. We ought to be at least as worried about what happens when we make humans into machines.
There’s a word to describe people who believe that unpleasant ideas can be eliminated by banning the “trigger words” that represent them: Such people are called children.
Twenty years ago, it was hard to see any major difference in government from one state to another, except perhaps in the prevailing tax rates. But now it’s obvious.
How long will these restrictions go on? As people are finding out in California, New York, and all across Europe, the intention is that they should go on forever.
It’s lucky they made me watch all those films about peer pressure in high school. Because I have never in my adult life—or even in high school—experienced peer pressure like this.