Thursday, December 20, 2012

Barbarism

Self-government and its institutions--public schools, police and fire departments, the ridiculously underfunded mental-health facilities, and all the people to whom we increasingly begrudge their salaries--are the only things keeping us from falling back into barbarism, and the only things keeping us safe and sane when one of us falls back into it on their own.
--Charles P. Pierce

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