Where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission.
Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock
Voluntaryist
Still part of the control group. So far, so good.
Update: June 11
That background image ... had to share. You hear of these types of things from time to time, but I consider it a credit to me (even if I bestow it myself) that I was able to immediately react to this one-day apparent $13 million loss in my IRA by laughing out loud.