Quote of the day

The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it,” Colonel Lindbergh told his countrymen. “If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently impose it.”

Introducing the song “I like being left alone” , and describing it as sort of a libertarian anthem –

Think of it as Ron Paul Sartre

also from the song:

I like water

I like air

I like space, but not to share

The ABCs of hand tools

Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth.
Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

Machiavelli

I think the second line is the more telling.  I remember Tyler Cowen (I think) describe raising children as the proper determination of what activities will be character building and which will be needless suffering.

I want to live in a world where it’s easier to do good.

From Utah Phillips

“Confidence is the feeling you have before you fully understand the situation”

Mickey Mouse the Drug Dealer

How to Figure Out the Cost of a Medical Procedure Before it Happens

and Elmore Leonard’s 10 rules for writing

From Utah

I want to live in a world where it’s easier to be good

and

If you want nothing before your dead
Shake hands with your boss and look wise

and

He had the everlasting No

and

You find our if you’re really a pacifist while you’re on the way to the floor

I’ve discovered him on Spotify – the more more different the worldview, the more interesting the person. He is a relentlessly categorical thinker.