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So if my comment policy was the first thing I think I got right (and I’m highly confident it was) in my search for an original and effective response to the loss of freedom, then this new idea that just occurred to me (after some words from a co-worker were turning in my brain) is the second. It’ll be pretty controversial with many of my political and ideological brethren, I suspect, but I’m eager to defend it.  Too bad I don’t have time to write about it tonight, and probably not tomorrow, and if not then, then probably not until Wednesday. I’m sure you’re all on the edge of your seats .

(What my co-worker said was “It’s okay, I have no hate in my heart.”  To which I responded, “And neither do I.”)

UPDATE:  Yeah, no time to really write anything.  The only thing I’m adding tonight is to mention that I see no reason to suspect that people today are inherently more virtuous or wicked than they have ever been in human history.  And that goes cross-culturally as well.  Most people worldwide embody a desperate desire to see good triumph, and are riddled with anxiety that good is impotent.  The phrase “Worldwide Prisoner’s Dilemma” just drifted through my transom…