Sunday Reading: Welcome to Our Crazy Years

Given that I've had to recently explain that not only were 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 weren't supposed to be instruction manuals but that The Stanford Prison Experiment wasn't either; I'll leave it to Glenn Reynolds to explain why Heinlein's Crazy Years weren't:

We’re worried about racism or poverty, so we pull down statues. We’re concerned about terrorism so we confiscate fliers’ charm bracelets with miniature gun-charms on them. We worry about the economy, so we print more money and enact more regulations.

Since these actions don’t bring about the desired result, the problems they’re intended to address continue to grow and fester. And the response, usually, is to double down on the responses that don’t work.

That’s crazy.  But these are the Crazy Years.

 If you need me I'll be over here practicing how to rub blue mud on my belly button.