The Greatest Generation defeated fascism so that their children, the Boomers, could become the most selfish generation in history, drown their descendents in debt, and plunge their nation into state dependency and … fascism. (Today we use more polite words such as crony capitalism, corporatism, public/private partnerships, et cetera, but they are technically the same.) A nation that [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2011
John Lennon — Do Everything for Peace
“Ask them to show you one revolution that turned out to be what it promised militantly … The thing is to protest — but protest nonviolently. They’ve got all the weapons, they’ve got all the money and they know how to fight violence because they’ve been doing it for thousands of years — suppressing us. [...]
Thomas Paine — The Dupes of War
“War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.” – Thomas Paine
Broken Windows and the March to War
In the movie The Fifth Element, protagonist Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg perfectly explains The Broken Window Fallacy (see below), first described by Frédéric Bastiat in his 1850 essay Ce qu’on voit et ce qu’on ne voit pas (That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Unseen). Zorg demonstrates how tyrants use this misunderstanding to justify all types [...]
John T. Flynn — Beware Bipartisan Calls for Increased Regulation
“One of the most baffling phenomena of fascism is the almost incredible collaboration between men of the extreme Right and the extreme Left in its creation. The explanation lies at this point. Both Right and Left joined in this urge for regulation. The motives, the arguments, and the forms of expression were different but all [...]
