With those who follow a different Way, it is impossible to share a Republic of Liberty.
Obedience to What?!?
For those who doubt Stanley Milgram’s obedience to authority experiments, compare the experiments to the real strip search scam.
COVID Follies
I feel like I’m in a particularly unrealistic SF novel. The oppressors are supposed to provide ‘bread & circuses.’ In real life, denying people bread & circuses and—here’s the SF part—propaganda makes the people want their own deprivation!
Falsifiability
The theory that science should be falsifiable is a philosophical (not scientific) theory about science. It can be replaced by other theories about the uses, purposes, and nature of science.
One alternative: the socialist theory of science in which science should serve the people, which means to serve the party which controls the government.
From the Provinces
There is no provincial more provincial than an academic.