John Green – A recent Gallup poll found that public confidence in our institutions is collapsing. The only institutions that still garner majority confidence are the military and small businesses. Nearly three quarters of Americans have lost confidence in government, big business, academia, and the media (among others).
The vast majority of our institutions are failing. They aren’t failing to survive. They’re failing to meet our expectations — which means they’re failing to satisfy their reason for being.
But there’s something peculiar about their failure. As they collapse, they are all falling leftward — never rightward. They universally move in a direction that reduces rather than increases our liberty. Why is that? Continue reading