Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Blogger friend Professor Mondo links brilliantly, yet again.
Bruno Behrend at Chicago Boyz suggests the questions that should be used to frame the political debate for the next couple of years:
“Can you govern yourself, or do you need a Federal Czar to govern your life for you?”
and
“Can you find a doctor, a light-bulb, or control the flow of your toilet, or should one of our Federal Czars take that decision out of your hands?”
He goes on to suggest that framing the debate in these terms is a necessary step toward a rollback of statism. It’s an interesting strategy.
Behrend’s point is that the right people will win such a debate, by a 75-25 margin.
I, on the other hand, sought to make a different point when I observed this disparity some five years ago. People, according to my ruminations on the evidence that comes to my eyes and ears, are dedicated to whatever ways and means they have nailed down for living life. You see people placed in situations in which it’s ridiculous to seek help from others, and they do it anyway. Other people are put in situations in which it is risible and silly to depend on oneself, and they (we) do that anyway.
Our voting has come down to a selection between two absolutes, two “everywhere, always, whether you like it or not”‘s.
Which half of humanity is to be accommodated by government, the Architects or the Medicators.
Behrend might very well have a point, that the outcome of the decision will be altered significantly if it is simply framed as what it really is. I have long thought so, and would like to give it a try. That’s what it is all about anyway. We might as well admit it.
Why should the Architects win? Because that’s the American dream. If you want to be a Medicator with a leviathan of a government servicing all your needs womb-to-tomb and telling you what those needs are, there are hundreds of other places all over the world where you can go.
There is only one shining beacon on this globe built to accommodate the Architects. And the Medicators desire to snuff it out, like a candle. That is their nature. When you’re dependent, you don’t want anyone else to be independent. Your business becomes everybody else’s business, so I suppose it’s only natural you want everybody else’s business to become yours.
Sure, let’s vote on that. But let’s do it honestly.
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Stuff like this is why I keep insisting that liberalism is the biggest case of psychological projection ever. For all their constant harping on “hope” and “change” and “diversity,” what liberals actually want is a completely static world. In the liberal utopia, I’d get up, take a shower for 3.5 minutes at 85 degrees per EPA-mandated water usage guidelines, go to work at my Smart Green job with the exact right race/gender/sexual orientation balance among my coworkers, eat my FDA-approved ration lunch, drive my Government Motors-brand hybrid home, watch MSNBC on my Fairness Doctrine-certified cable television, and go to bed….
…while they, of course, would be busy doing exactly what they want, when they want, because every proletariat needs a vanguard, right?
- Severian | 11/08/2010 @ 11:32