I’ve been thinking a lot about authoritarians lately.

Maybe you have, too.

Call them autocrats, despots, strongmen, bullies, dictators, oppressors, tyrants — the names may differ, but their behaviors are the same. 🧵1/ There are forces afoot that affect all facets of our lives, from human rights to business regulations — forces that are bound up in a kind of dyspeptic and despotic leadership that increasingly pervades our existing systems.

Not only in politics, but at work. 2/

A quick 🧵about the latest #ethics challenge at Facebook.

“In short, they have marketed and sold their lethal product with zeal, with deception, with a single-minded focus on their financial success, and without regard for the human tragedy or social costs that success exacted.” No, that quote about deception in the pursuit of profit wasn't a summary of Facebook's strategy, although it could have been.

Where did it come from?

Stick with me.

Every time I visit my parents, I document their expired stuff.

Some of it is so old, it doesn’t even have an expiration date.

https://twitter.com/wickettred/status/1437090804544286728

What Makes Vaccine Mandates Legal?

Historically, the Supreme Court has held that forgoing vaccines is a threat to public health and therefore beyond the bounds of liberty. The highest court has generally found that while freedom of belief may be absolute, freedom of action is not.

There is no liberty to infect others with a communicable disease, just as there is no liberty to murder.

With the statue of Robert E. Lee coming down in Richmond, it's worth reflecting on why we create monuments and what they say about us.

timelesstimely.com/p/a-monumental… Lewis H. Lapham reminds us: “The recorded past is a spiked cannon. The remembered past is live ammunition — not what happened two hundred or two thousand years ago, a story about what happened two hundred or two thousand years ago.”

What stories do we want to keep alive?