George Washington really wanted to win the Revolutionary War.  He was desperate for it, thank God.

“Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”  -Friedrich Nietzsche

I stumbled upon a #MeToo video from 2018 and it's as foreign to me now as a video of the Salem Witch Trials would be.  What were people thinking?  Louis CK asked women if he could masturbate in front of them.  Love it or hate it it's not the work of Genghis Khan.  But that's how it was treated.  Louis inspired the same hatred as a Saddam Hussein did.

"... a ravenous machine seeking new fears, new terrors. I’m telling you, this is the way modern society works—by the constant creation of fear. And there is no countervailing force. There is no system of checks and balances, no restraint on the perpetual promotion of fear after fear after fear. . . ."  -Michael Chricton