To the reader who sent me this:
It seems that, over the last 100+ years, our state DMVs have done an admirable job in maintaining safety via their system of deciding to whom they issue drivers licenses and under what circumstances. I understand that there are bigots who want to make the U.S. an English-only country, but this strikes me as solving a problem that doesn’t exist.
Here’s a little story in this regard: I met a guy recently who had graduated from Princeton, and I told him about I guy I know who was five years ahead of me at my prep school in Philadelphia, then graduated from Princeton. Here we are, half a century later, and I see him posting on Facebook: “English only!! No open borders!!”
My new friend burst into hysterics. “Yes, that happens occasionally,” he smiled. “Jesus. What a waste of hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
I got the meme here from a neighbor, but I wonder who actually wrote it. There is a ton of propaganda on social media suggesting that we need to normalize the sociopathic criminality of the U.S. president.
It’s true that not every election is an apocalypse, but 2024 was disastrous for the U.S. democracy.
Yes, the country did not end. But it took a giant leap towards authoritarianism.
Even that’s not the end of the world. Democracies fail with great frequency on this planet. I just never thought I’d be living in the biggest socio-political collapse in the last 2000 years.
In an average week, I meet quite a few travelers here from lands all around this planet. Their most common thoughts on what’s happening here: “We simply feel sorry for you.”
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In a recent post, I argued that our brains are wired in a certain way, and that we have little in any control over our values and beliefs.
German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte seem to be saying something similar here. To take me as an example, I’m no more capable of being a Trump supporter than I am in believing in the tooth fairy or Santa Claus.
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