Argues that Russian hybrid attacks pose less danger to Europeans than their own governments, which use the fear to justify permanent emergency powers and surveillance, as happened in the post-9/11 United States.
Argues that politicians are the most dangerous people in ordinary life because power corrupts and elections are too slow to constrain them, so systems should be designed around distrust, limits, liability, and constant oversight rather than trusting better leaders.
The article argues that if the state treats citizens as too incompetent to vote without tests, the legitimacy of elected governments collapses into either paternalism or a broken democracy.
The article argues that the best place to live is not the one with the strongest economy but the one where a slow, limited government keeps rights frozen and predictable over decades.
Western governments increasingly adopt Chinese-style surveillance and control, which the author argues validates the CCP’s model and erodes universal human rights, making the free world authoritarian in practice rather than in name.
Claims AI is as fundamental as electricity and the internet, so it must stay free from government regulation and monopolistic companies whose censorship would corrupt a tool that extends human thought and independence.
Defines a government’s proper purpose as expanding citizens’ personal possibilities, arguing that restrictions framed as being for your own good or the collective benefit are a scam and that rights should never be traded for access.
Claims Europeans wrongly equate democratic elections with trustworthy government, and should adopt the Russians’ lifelong skepticism, treating rulers as hired managers limited to basic services rather than society architects.
Argues that legal marriage is an inflexible all-or-nothing contract and should be replaced by customizable modular trust agreements that delegate specific rights, duties, and guardianship case by case with minimal state involvement.