Resolve not to be a wimp in the face of government edicts. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
It is traditional to make resolutions at the beginning of the new year for the coming year. What would be an appropriate resolution for the new year – after the past four years?
One that seems right is to resolve to ignore stupid, tyrannical rules whenever one can “get away” with it – and to never accept them as legitimate in one’s head. This implies another resolution, just as important and perhaps even more so as it is foundational. It is to always use your head – your capacity to evaluate facts and act according to the facts – rather than to lower your head and accept whatever you are told you must do (and not do) just because the rules say so.
Keeping in mind the interesting incongruity manifested by those who insist the rules must always be followed because they have been set down for our own good by those who know best. Well, how do they know this? Do they know each of us – and intimately enough that they can assert with any credibility knowing what is best for us? The only way they could know it would be if they were us. Or were – somehow – omniscient and infallible. Like God. Which is of course how some of these people regard themselves, which manifests delusional lunacy as well as authoritarian thinking.
I have learned to speak again but the writing is atrocious except for cursive.
Not bad for gibberish for two weeks ago.
H/T To G.