“One of the obvious signs of the current operation of active stupidity is this: complete disregard of contexts and their implications.

This is the nature of maxims and truisms. Those pithy little sayings everyone is so fond of -start with disposal of context-.

It is also the nature of law, and the source of millions of the most egregious and fundamental errors our species has ever enacted.

And it starts with ideas like those you see quoted here, all day long, every day. These little innocent-seeming quips and quotes are a sign of the times.

And the meaning of the sign is grim.”

— an anonymous informant