And lately, I’ve noticed more and more of the people I know mentioning that they’d like a law passed against this thing or that thing, usually a rather minor pet peeve of theirs. Are they joking? Doesn’t sound like it. These are people who used to be – or used to portray themselves, but it seemed sincere back then – as free spirits, more or less on the libertarian side of things. Those days are gone. Now they have no trouble with petty and pervasive tyrannies as long as they are tyrannies that fit their own belief system and desires.