The Ponderosa: Leftist pathology in a second easy lesson

Death before Dhimmitude

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Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Leftist pathology in a second easy lesson

"Something must be done, even if it doesn't work," Geldof said in one recent interview, and in that one moment he came closest to capturing the...
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It was, as Chris Martin of Coldplay put it, "the greatest thing that's ever been organised probably in the history of the world", and although veterans of the two world wars might have disagreed, for once the drift-net rock statement captured the mood.
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Psycho-babble from mediocre musicians, for sure, but we'll bite:

How's about translating 50 million copies each of The Wealth of Nations, John Locke's Second Treatise on Civil Government and Hayek's Constitution of Liberty and sending over qualified instructors (no $12,000 gift bags necessary) to teach these great works?

Nah, Bush is Hitler.

The Ponderosa

Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Leftist pathology in a second easy lesson

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