"… the conservative view of free speech is that it protects personal liberty and thereby the cause of freedom overall… more and more the liberal view of free speech seems to be one of a utility that enables or legitimizes government activism and the enlightened autocracy it seeks… thus for good reason the two ideological presets seem to be increasingly at odds with each other, as if the American democratic arrangement as it has existed for over two hundred years is no longer pliable or flexible or dynamic enough to accommodate the two… like a couple debating what troubles their marriage, one can argue the cause of this dysfunction and whether it's like to prove temporary or permanent… but irreconcilable differences loom and even if it doesn't end in actual divorce, a trial separation can't be ruled out… in fact, we may already be there..."
