18 Dec
2003
18 Dec
'03
1:17 a.m.
The fear means they arrive early to spend more down time waiting in line to pass through security. So they adapt, thinking: That's not a barricade, it's a flowerpot. They give up a little freedom in exchange for feeling safe, "all watched over," as the late poet Richard Brautigan wrote, "by machines of loving grace."
As the great Benjamin Frankling said: Those who would sacrifice essential freedom for temporary safety deserve neither.