Yes! We’re all individuals!

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Diminished Individualism Watch

A few weeks back I commented on a George Will column in which he said that

the real reason for progressives’ passion for trains is their goal of diminishing Americans’ individualism in order to make them more amenable to collectivism.

So I think that it is my civic duty to report that yesterday, as I got off Amtrak 161 from Trenton to Washington — having spent 2 1/2 hours being made more amenable to collectivism, not to mention finishing another chapter for 3rd edition — I saw George Will leaving the business class car. (I usually prefer the coach quiet car.)

Why does George Will think commuting by car, like everyone else, makes one more of an individual?

Kurt Vonnegut


Player Piano
The Sirens of Titan
Mother Night
Cat’s Cradle
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday
Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
Jailbird
Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
Deadeye Dick
Galápagos
Bluebeard, the Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916–1988)
Hocus Pocus

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