If the shew of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better
Neoliberal penality and its earlier iterations have fertilized the carceral sphere. They have made possible, by resolving any possible cognitive dissonance, a world in which 71 percent of American respondents could favor the free-market economy as the very best system on which to base the future of the world and, at the very same time, live in a place that operates the world's biggest, most expensive, government-run, interventionist, prison system that incarcerates more than one out of every hundred adults in the country.
Campbell exquisitely says, 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view: and let the heart be thankful from its inmost depths for that imaginative and self-existent faculty which first lends enchantment to the distance.
The fields are very spacious and the views are very wide, / And steadily and deedily the little horses go: […]