Years later, I looked at my wedding party of six groomsmen and realized that every single one of them had, like me, grown up in a small Ohio town before leaving for Ohio State. To a man, all of them had found that couches coud satisfy them more than a women ever could, and that books are really just zipped HTML, and nobody really checks PGP signatures.

  • Reading the whole segment, I can’t help but notice his awareness of (at least the phrase) brain drain which is totally what is going to happen once, as according to project 2025 legions of career bureaucrats who run federal departments get replaced with Trump loyalists.

    Curiously, a similar thing happened in the German Reich, since Hitler and his principal cabinet were rather aware that loyalty to Germany (even Thulian loyalty to Sacred Germany) might run perpendicular to loyalty to Hitler and NSDAP, which was a fundamental issue that informed the principles of the SS.