Against Meta-Decadence

Everybody wins when you don't give up.

I once heard a story about a man who works on Capitol Hill, a centrist with mostly respectable political convictions who works as an expert adviser on human rights. This person is a good friend and father, but his job had left him discouraged and cynical. He had his reasons: the halcyon days of international human rights are over. Despots pay lip servic…