Collective Conscious

Paul Krug­man (via):

A few weeks back I com­mented on a George Will col­umn in which he said that

the real rea­son for pro­gres­sives’ pas­sion for trains is their goal of dimin­ish­ing Amer­i­cans’ indi­vid­u­al­ism in order to make them more amenable to collectivism.

So I think that it is my civic duty to report that yes­ter­day, as I got off Amtrak 161 from Tren­ton to Wash­ing­ton — hav­ing spent 2 ¹⁄₂ hours being made more amenable to col­lec­tivism, not to men­tion fin­ish­ing another chap­ter for 3^rd edi­tion — I saw George Will leav­ing the busi­ness class car. (I usu­ally pre­fer the coach quiet car.)