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Monday July 9, 2012. I got high by not taking drugs. More precisely, I forgot to take my ADHD medication. By the time I remembered, I was away from home.

It was fun for a while. Okay for a while longer. Then thinking got harder, and my synesthesias faded noticeably.

***To Minneapolis Central Library, where I handed over the library DVD I'd found on Sunday (and the library card inside the DVD case.)

Took out some books while I was there, of course.

Shopped at Aldi Foods, and then home.

***From Crooked Timber: Because nothing says "spontaneous order" like torture and disappearances
by Henry on July 9, 2012

Corey Robin has two posts on Friedrich von Hayek’s admiration for Augusto Pinochet, quoting extensively from a new article by Andrew Farrant, Edward McPhail, and Sebastian Berger.

Here is just a taste:

'For instance, Hayek—writing to The Times in 1978 and explicitly invoking Pinochet by name—noted that under certain "historical circumstances," an authoritarian government may prove especially conducive to the long-run preservation of liberty: There are "many instances of authoritarian governments under which personal liberty was safer than under many democracies."'
http://tinyurl.com/72pf493