Before I begin, I apologize for my extended absence. I’ve been battling one of the covid variants, which has evolved into pneumonia. But I think I’m well enough to get back to work, so I’m gonna do my best. We’ll let Tucker do the real work, as usual, and I’ll try fishing out a couple of sentences.
Tucker takes a look at the soulless bureaucracy America is quickly becoming, why it’s nonsense and why it can’t stand. Highlights include:
“First and most obviously, big governments don’t treat their citizens very well. Yes, that’s a Reagan-era talking point. It’s also true. The larger a bureaucracy becomes, the more impersonal it gets. Past a certain size, organizations of any kind lose their regard for people.”
“Past a certain scale, democracy can’t function very well. The concept of the citizen becomes too abstract. You see it in the way our leaders talk. Politicians barely mention individuals anymore. Instead, they yammer on about voting blocs, which are now called ‘communities.’ The immigrant community. The trans community. The latino community. The black community. You hear these terms constantly, but they are nonsensical, they don’t mean anything.”
“Uncrowded is good. You don’t have to be rich to understand this, it’s all pretty obvious. Really, only in a moment like this one, when the people with the loudest megaphones speak exclusively in lies, would we need to be reminded of it. Bigger is not always better, in fact, most of the time it is worse.”
“The core problem is that bigness is inherently ugly. There’s never been a beautiful skyscraper. Every single one of them is an atrocity. The fact that people still pretend otherwise tells you how conditioned we have become to disregard our own nature and our own longings.”
“Healthy societies are not at all like the one we are living in now. They’re not impersonal. They don’t exist to maintain empires. They exist to serve the human beings who live within them. They elevate their citizens, they don’t degrade them.”
“The good news is the system we currently have cannot last. It’s too perverse, it’s too disconnected from the natural world, so it will end. And as it does end, as we think about how we want to live going forward, it’s worth remembering that other people in the end are all that matters. Your relationships are the sum of your life.”
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