Archive for November, 2010

Indistinguishable

Saturday, November 20th, 2010

Monahan, this week:

“Attached to this letter was the report the officer had filled out. I’d like to say I couldn’t believe it, but in a way, I could. It’s seemingly becoming the norm in America – lies and deliberate distortions on the part of those in power, no matter how much or how little power they actually wield.”

Solzhenitsyn, 1960s:

The interrogator writes down the deposition himself, translating it into his own language

I’m horrified by the fact that humans haven’t advanced one moral nanogram in the past 50 years.