And there's the intellectual problem I can't reconcile.

Me: "Fuck off nanny state, you don't have a right to tell me what kind of gun I can own or what I can buy. I'm a fucking adult."

Also me: "Holy shit, that guy is fucking stupid. He shouldn't be allowed to own that item or do that thing because he's a danger to himself and others"

The Jeffersonian ideal of the noble yeoman farmer: a competent freethinking, self-sufficient citizen, has always been a fantasy.

Most people are nothing more than cattle with the gift of speech. They have little to no capacity for independent thought and are easily swayed by anyone with the rudimentary skills to manipulate them. Their ambitions and their abilities both confine them to toiling away it meaningless low skill jobs to acquire equally meaningless material goods.

The trick is devising the system that correctly categorizes people, where the stupid have the rights of a child their whole life because they basically are children and those with competence are unshackled from government controls that should never have applied to them in the first place.

And there's the intellectual problem I can't reconcile.

Me: "Fuck off nanny state, you don't have a right to tell me what kind of gun I can own or what I can buy. I'm a fucking adult."

Also me: "Holy shit, that guy is fucking stupid. He shouldn't be allowed to own that item or do that thing because he's a danger to himself and others"

The Jeffersonian ideal of the noble yeoman farmer: a competent freethinking, self-sufficient citizen, has always been a fantasy.

Most people are nothing more than cattle with the gift of speech. They have little to no capacity for independent thought and are easily swayed hi anyone with the rudimentary skills to manipulate them. Their ambitions and their abilities both confine them to toiling away it meaningless Los kill jobs to acquire equally meaningless material goods.

The trick is devising the system that correctly categorizes people, where the stupid have the rights of a child their whole life because they basically are children and those with competence are unshackled from government controls that should never have applied to them in the first place.