mushinnoshin

People’s Branch is doing Death and the Maiden. It’s really very powerful, go see it if you can.

Of course part of the message is “torture == bad” — so Republicans may want to skip it.

On a side note, the play is loosely based on the happenings in Chile under the Pinochet regime — a regime with some notable connections to and influence from “libertarian” Milton Friedman. I point to this not to damn Friedman necessarily — I do recognize that sometimes we are presented with utilitarian choices between evils, and that he may well have worked only within the framework presented in order to effect the best outcome possible. But the consequence of taking a utilitarian position is that you must always be judged in accord with that position, which history can only do if the facts remain front and center.