Great Lines: The Human Community Edition
I’ve begun to make a lot of updates to my website. Like with my earlier link collection project, I’m now putting everything I’ve found over the years that’s awesome into one place. I also post the stuff I put in this newsletter on the site before I put them into the newsletter.
I’d love for you to check it out at SYSBYRT (“Stuff You Saw Because You Read This”).
These are the types of people who are the greatest threats to our system:
…the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (ie. the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (ie. the standards of thought) no longer exist.
We're Talking About Vaccines All Wrong:
"This gets to the core of the anxiety driving the anti-vax movement: They want all the rights, privileges, and benefits of human community without any sense of obligation to be responsible participants in that community."
I've never been able to put conspiracy theorists' attitudes into words before, but this hits it on the head.
I love Mike Birglia's comedy. His book had gems like the following:
The closest I had come to seeing a woman naked was in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Since my parents never gave me a sex talk, all I knew was that sex had something to do with swimming.