“The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.”
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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
