Status Updates From The Crucible

“A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence. Once such an equation is effectively made, society becomes a converse of plots and counterplots, and the main role of government changes from that of the arbiter to that of the scourge of God.” miller lowkey speaking anti-2 party system facts

HALE: Nonsense! Mister, I have myself examined Tituba, Sarah Good, and numerous others that have confessed to dealing with the Devil. They have confessed it.
PROCTOR: And why not, if they must hang for denyin' it? There are them that will swear to anything before they'll hang; have you never thought of that?

[false confessions are as old as crime itself]

'I am sick of meetings; cannot the man turn his head without he have a meeting?'

[RIP Thomas Putnam, you would've hated Zoom too]