Whitepill #1: The hysterics have only a negative vision to sell. Narrow, pinched, sanctimonious, endlessly critical, resentful, bitter, demoralizing, depressing. No normal person actually wants to live like that.
Whitepill #2: Notwithstanding all the censorship pressure campaigns, information really is more readily available today than ever before.
Whitepill #3: Conflict drives evolutionary improvement of ideas (memes), just like life. Conflict levels (non-violent, of course) are rising. The marketplace of ideas is strengthening, not weakening.
Whitepill #4: The truth remains the truth. βYou can drive out Nature with a pitchfork, but she keeps coming back in.β βHorace
Whitepill #5: Software is really, really, really hard to outlaw.
Whitepill #6: The corrupt elites are SO bad. They're even bad at being elites.
Whitepill #7: Arbitrage means that the payoff from actual merit and competence is rising fast.
Whitepill #8: Capitalism absorbs dissent and sells it back to us as a luxury consumer good.
Whitepill #9: The public's confidence in incumbent American institutions is converging on the truth.
Whitepill #10: Today's best young entrepreneurs seem much better than their predecessors from the prior 30 years.
Whitepill #11: Action causes reaction.
Whitepill #12: "The worse, the better." --Lenin
Whitepill #13: In this version of "1984", the telescreens broadcast both ways. amazon.com
Whitepill #14: Every day, two lists get longer: The things you believe but can't say, and the things you don't believe but must say.
Whitepill #15: "They lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them." But, they are still lying.
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