Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Moral Lectures in the Post-Christian Age

The Washington Post demands that you refrain from eating meat for the rest of your life so that your conspicuous consumption will not DESTROY the planet, or else the government may come forth to coerce you.


Meanwhile, this is the humble dinghy that the owner of The Washington Post just built for himself.  Not conspicuous at all, is it?


It's rather like the late Roman Empire in that an elite class creates and demands fealty to a shifting set of laws that they have no intention of following themselves.

Once again, I'll believe this to be an emergency when those who tell me it's an emergency begin to act like it.