
Instead of viewing the world in terms of availability of choices, we should view the world in terms of friction required to enact choices. Imagine a world where choices were labeled with how difficult they were to fulfill (like coefficie…
…ar we go to purge our memorials of statesmen who don’t fare well under modern standards of conduct? We’d do well to ask how we want to be regarded by future generations for our transgressions against their standards. Some symbolic purging of the more repugnant exponents of past injustices is healthy. Let Jefferson…