Living ~400lbs

As you are probably aware, I just read and posted responses to all 20 chapters of the book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, by Timothy Snyder. Snyder is is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. He is the Richard C. […]

If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny. (From On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder.) Yes, that’s chapter 20 in full.

For tyrants, the lesson of the Reichstag fire is that one moment of shock enables an eternity of submission. For us, the lesson is that our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions. Courage does not mean not fearing, or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management […]