I’ve spent the past week enjoying the sweet taste of anguished tears flowing from the tortured eyes of approximately 50% of those people in this country who think they have the right, nay, the obligation to rule me for my own good.
It’s only a matter of time, perhaps, before some prodigy of self-awareness among them asks, “We offered them utopia and they slapped it away. What do these subhuman creatures want?” And then that person will propose a dangerous expedition to flyover country, to gain the answers.
Let me preempt all that, with the aid of that immortal bard, William Shatner…
See, it just wouldn’t work out.
“anguished tears flowing from the tortured eyes of approximately 50% of those people in this country who think they have the right, nay, the obligation to rule me for my own good.”
I have been trying to parse this paragraph all day Joel.
I feel not the slightest obligation to “rule” you, yet I remain “anguished” about both our choices and the outcome of our recent Presidential election, because I fear that freedom will be the ultimate loser.
You can decide for yourself which 50% that puts me in, because I’m really not sure.
Unless you were on or enabling one of the presidential campaigns, Ben, I didn’t intend for you to see yourself in that sentence. 🙂
The people that want to boss us around “for our own good” don’t want to know anything about us. That would ruin the fun of assuming they know every human’s individual “good”.