{"id":2505761,"date":"2025-11-10T07:40:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monetizemail.com\/magatoon\/?p=2505761"},"modified":"2025-11-10T08:54:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T13:54:40","slug":"escape-the-digital-purse-seine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monetizemail.com\/magatoon\/2025\/11\/10\/escape-the-digital-purse-seine\/","title":{"rendered":"Escape the Digital Purse Seine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Escape the Digital Purse Seine<\/a>
\nby Lori Weintz<\/a> at Brownstone Institute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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purse seine – a large wall of netting deployed around an entire area or school of fish. The seine has floats along the top line with a lead line threaded through rings along the bottom. Once a school of fish is located, a skiff encircles the school with the net. The lead line is then pulled in, \u201cpursing\u201d the net closed on the bottom, preventing fish from escaping by swimming downward.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Due to the relatively short lifespan of human beings, it can be difficult to put our own life experiences in perspective with history. This is why we have the saying, \u201cThose who forget history are condemned to repeat it.\u201d Combine a lack of historical knowledge with the fact that human nature doesn\u2019t change much, and you have a recipe for human-caused misery, repeated over and over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s short story\u00a0“The Cask of Amontillado<\/a>,” we see an example of human nature gone awry, with lethal results. From the first, the reader is privy to Montresor\u2019s disgust toward Fortunato and his desire to exact revenge for a perceived insult. As the story progresses, it should be evident to Fortunato that Montresor has ill intent, but Fortunato cannot imagine the evil, so he continues into the depths of the catacomb, willingly walking toward his own demise while being plied with wine and called \u201cfriend.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even as Montresor is about to place the last stone that will seal Fortunato\u2019s death in chains behind the brick wall, Fortunato calls it a good joke that they will laugh about later. Montresor agrees, drops his torch into the opening, places the final brick, and piles old bones of his ancestors in front, where half a century later \u201cno mortal has disturbed them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n