Quotation of the Day
4th January 2025
ZMan:
What the internet reveals is that there is a sizable portion of the population, even in high trust societies, that need rules and a firm hand to have socially productive lives. Left to their own devices, their idle hands start doing the Devil’s work. They find ways to undermine order and make themselves an irritant to the rest of society. It is their nature. … All this is a reminder that there is nothing new under the sun. More precisely, there are no new ideas, just new ways of stating old ideas. One of those old ideas is that human society is only possible with order and order is only possible when it is imposed and enforced, with the general consent, on the portion of the population that needs that order imposed on them the most.