Quote of the Day: 20 April 2026 #QotD

“You'll miss the American, who deals sharply but cheats no one, who is tougher than the thugs and cleverer than the tricksters, who says ‘I can do it’ when others shrug, and who respects learning but is suspicious of those claiming to be learned, when the last one dies.” -Kendric Tonn
[An honorable society, as opposed to an honor culture, is always a loss when it is lost. And the loss is irreversible. So, perhaps the prudent course of action would be to preserve such societies in the face of existential crises.]