Fighting the good fight, Matt, one person at a time. How far is too far is definitely the question people need to be addressing. Yes, where is the line. That people see that line as mutable, is disturbing.
Take away natural beauty, free access to books and support for the arts, and you end up with a less enlightened, more ignorant and less engaged public. That’s a public much more easily manipulated.
“A people that can no longer believe in anything cannot make up its mind,” said Arendt, a student of authoritarianism, in 1973. Eventually, such a public “is deprived … of its ability to think and judge”, and with people like that, “you can then do what you please”.
Fighting the good fight, Matt, one person at a time. How far is too far is definitely the question people need to be addressing. Yes, where is the line. That people see that line as mutable, is disturbing.
We keep moving the goalposts
Great piece.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/02/national-parks-libraries-museums-trump
Take away natural beauty, free access to books and support for the arts, and you end up with a less enlightened, more ignorant and less engaged public. That’s a public much more easily manipulated.
“A people that can no longer believe in anything cannot make up its mind,” said Arendt, a student of authoritarianism, in 1973. Eventually, such a public “is deprived … of its ability to think and judge”, and with people like that, “you can then do what you please”.