More freedom

Most people are insufferable hypocrits is the truth. But they're generally decent insufferable hypocrits. Or, at least they're not psychopaths. And the great thing about liberal democracy is that at least that's an open secret rather than a dirty little bit of repression. Plenty of repression in democracies. But very little place to hide forever.

The question is whether we face our biggest secret - that we're all packing them. And that the world is worse for our being such pricks in the name of uncovering them rather than living up to our liberal democratic ideals and treating people with more decency and humanity.

And the greatest thing of all about liberal democracies is that we always come to our senses, eventually. Because there really is only one way forward. And liberal democracies more than any other culture more honestly and reliably move in that direction: more freedom.

Love,
Ben