Saturday, May 9, 2020

More Shifts. Help from Lin Yutang

Thresholds are moving, reconforming. Interest wanes in some areas as a sorting is taking place, mostly out of our consciousness.

In this present age of threats to democracy and individual liberty, probably only the scamp and the spirit of the scamp alone will save us from becoming lost as serially numbered units in the masses of disciplined, obedient, regimented and uniformed coolies. The scamp will be the last and most formidable enemy of dictatorships. He will be the champion of human dignity and individual freedom, and will be the last to be conquered. All modern civilization depends entirely upon him. [Lin Yutang]

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