friendly reminder that pretty much everything about covid was theater kids, distortions, rank incompetence, and deliberate lies. you lived through the largest mass derangement in the history of our species and the ones who called themselves "the science" and who demanded that we follow them were the most deranged of all.

"a republic if you can keep it." the american story is the story of human capital. this is not unique, rare, or even avoidable: all human stories are the story of human capital. always has this been so. this is the engine of progress. this process is never even. in the time some were managing aqueducts, others struggled to master the pointy stick. some thrived, others fell, and those who once thrived sometimes fell in turn. (usually because they forgot the things that made them thrive) history has not ended. it continues apace. this is the nature of civilizations that has come to determine the nature of the human experience. the world had no more resources 3,000 years ago than it has today and yet life has moved from “nasty, brutish and short” to “long, luxurious, and kind” to degrees unimaginable to our far forebears. and that is the story of human capital, of insight and growth, of innovation in technology, in societal development, and of the instantiation of institutions and ideas conducive to human flourishing and to manifesting destinies. these things do not happen of their own accord, they are the imposition of will and of design upon the world. and they must be cared for.