Free Thinkers and False Allies

“Wherever the crowd is, they got there too late, and for the wrong reasons.”
~Jim Goad

There’s nothing worse than seeing a great new thing getting dumbed down for the masses.  The initial elation when the new thing begins to spread – hopes for a revolution against the old, the ugly, and the mundane – only to watch as those seeds of change fail to blossom, and the the great, new thing becomes integrated into the established order.

What’s even worse is when you realize that most of your erstwhi...