18 May 2025 - eternal vigilance

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To control the danger presented by others, you have to become dangerous. Courts and armies exist to control danger, so they deliberately become authoritarian and dangerous. Government (even without its courts and armies) is dangerous by nature, hence eternal vigilance. But vigilance cannot be eternal, hence Trump.

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