“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If Only They Knew They Were Slaves
Harriet Tubman was the Morpheus of the 1800′s. What she offered was unique — freedom for those who wanted it. But many people don’t want it, or perhaps they think they want it, but they are unable to identify what it is, or what is keeping them from being free. (Indeed, this is the main [...]
John T. Flynn — The Road to Fascism
“All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.” – John T. Flynn
The Importance of Mockery
People who genuinely believe that a controlled society is better than a free society never stop being utterly ridiculous. They are (or at least should be) mocked relentlessly by freedom loving people everywhere. Of course, they dislike this intensely because they honestly believe they are brilliant and you would be a fool not to follow their dictates [...]
Freedom is the Only Radical Position
Socialism is not a radical position, it is the most reactionary. It describes a system of governance that has been in place in the world from the beginning. There were essentially no alternatives to it up to the Enlightenment, only variations on a theme. There may have been some hints of freedom here and there, [...]
Cognitive Dissonance
The “Occupy” franchise might have some demands — or they might not — they don’t really know yet. They sometimes identify the problem, but then their solutions are always more of the same. Because of this failure (refusal?) to link cause and effect, they become Cognitive Dissonance incarnate. They are Anarchists for Big Government. They see Crony [...]
Frédéric Bastiat — At Whose Expense?
“Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.” – Frédéric Bastiat
Fuck You, You’re Wrong
Penn Jillette used to be “kinda your classic Hollywood hippy liberal” who “hadn’t really thought about anything.” Then, while explaining his “half-assed position on politics,” Tim Jenison told him flat out, “Fuck You, you’re wrong,” and it changed his life. There are essentially two political positions: Freedom or Control. Those who are not for freedom are advocating some kind [...]
Thomas Sowell — Decision Making
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” – Thomas Sowell HT: Lawrence Reed
No “Talented” Bureaucrats
Former White House Budget Director Peter Orszag has said: “The country’s political polarization was growing worse — harming Washington’s ability to do the basic, necessary work of governing.” He wishes out loud that enlightened bureaucrats would not be overly constrained by lesser souls who hinder their work, presumably because they are too dense to comprehend the good that bureaucrats are [...]
