For the good of the “all”

Individual liberty=bad, community equality=good.   My question is, who gets to decide what is equal?  Obviously there are some who want to define what is too much, but if you asked an average person in Bangladesh what is too much, the might think the poverty level in America is lavish.  I suppose if we all lived in small apartments with regulated utility usage and comunal dining facilities, things would be more “equitable”,  but do we really all want to go back to college?  There is a certain campy giddiness about dorm style, but most of us grow up and want to have our own space, and maybe even a bit of distance from our neighbor.  Some of the would be social engineers out there would have us living in ever decreasing square footage, guided lifestyles, contrived communities, orchestrated employment, and, I’m sure, planned obsolescence.  Gotta do something about all those who are “Old and in the way.”

All along the border

Boundaries are a good thing, fences make good neighbors, the whole point of My Space is that it’s mine, facebook is my face, my book.  whether you like it or not, the world is made up of individuals, and the liberty afforded them, us, as individuals, is a direct measure of power.  the more liberty we have, the more power we have.  When government moves in such a way as to limit individual liberty, it subjects the individual to the community.   The more we as individuals give over to someone else, be it another person, or some organized entity, the less liberty we have.  I won’t argue with you if you want to give over your liberty to someone else, but I will when you decide for me what I am to give over.  If you want to enslave yourself, that’s your business.  At least have the presence of mind, though, to realize what you are doing.  There’s always somebody out there more than willing to run your life for you.  If that’s what you want, fine.  Just don’t ask me to go along with it.

“Do not trust in the princes of men.”

The Coming Cultural Revolution

As I said before, “Goerge Bush is the kind of politician who needed to connive, obfuscate and deceive  in order to take your civil liberties away.  Barak Obama is the kind of politician  you will willingly, adoringly, cloyingly give them over to.”

The climate is ripe for a sweeping away of all the old rhetoric.  The groups of fresh young faces will now begin flowing through the streets, looking to “help” you.  Clean up your yard.  Paint a fence.  Do you need some high efficacy lighting installed?

They will get into your house, and begin to examine your life, and make “suggestions” for improvement.  You will feel gratitude.  You will desire to get along with these ebullient young masters.

Of course, it’s all voluntary.  Of course.  At first.  I wonder, though, what would happen if you just said, “All I want the government to do is get out of my way.”

Prince Charles’ Rhapsodizing on Nature

Linked below will be an article from The london Times Online about a recent speach by the Prince of Whales, oops, I mean, Wales.  In it he glorys in the “Harmony” (his royal capitalization) of nature.  I don’t know if he understands the savage brutalness of survival.  From the lowest microbe through the vast plant and animal kingdoms the one truth is competition.  Eat or be eaten.  He laments the diconnectedness of humans to the natural world as the result of modernism and technology, and seems to put forth a return to nature.  It seems to me our technology has allowed us to avoid the more stark aspects of connectedness to the natural world while still allowing us to enjoy God’s handiwork in ways which only we as conscious beings can.

Are we polluters?  Are we exploiters?  Do we abuse our position in the hierarchy of nature?  Of course, but we also have the self-awareness to change that if we choose.  And we already have, and continue to do so.  But reconnecting to the savagery of “natural Harmony” will only bring about the savagery of the human, the very thing we have fought to conquer through our modernity.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5240226.ece

Read it and weep.

Obama to cure cancer

The cellebrants of the victory of Obama have been waxing poetic on what can now be accomplished since his exaltation.  One woman, on the Diane Rehm  show yesterday, spoke of how “anything” was possible since he was voted in.  “I believe we will cure cancer now.”

Already, the expectation depressors are out on the prowl trying to make sure people don’t get dissapointed about their problems not being solved in the first hundred seconds of his administration.  It seems they have a big job to do.

Nanowrimo

tonight is the beginning of the month long insanity known as National Novel Writing Month.

If you stumble on to this site, and have ever wondered what writing a novel would be like, check it out.

http://www.nanowrimo.org/user

Eagle Underground

Since the great O is going to become Fearless Leader and begin the transformation of society into hyped up neighborhood watch covens (read, soviets) it seems only appropriate, especially given that “dissent is the highest form of patriotism,” that we initiate the resistance.

Let the Socialist Win

I mean, what have we really got to lose?  The left contnually gripes about the loss of ‘civil liberties’ under the Bush dictatorship — which is really weird since if we were actually losing civil liberties you’d never hear about it from the likes of them since they’d be in jail — but they are continually putting forth an agenda that pushes for more government control over every aspect of human existence, except, of course, female reproductiveness.

Where’s my check?

More Tribalism

see this article on what I call global Tribalsim:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article4656255.ece

amazing

Workers of the World Unite!

As a capitalsit pig (read: small business owner) I must say I am grateful for the opportunity extended by the left.  If they win in November, I can just quit my job, and get all these wonderful ‘benefits’ and ‘entitlements.’

I’ll just send my children off on the bus to be brainwashed, gee, they could even go to pre-pre-school to learn how to suck off the socialist teat.  Then I could sit around the house bloating in front of the adult boob absorbing the propaganda.  My ration of soylent green would be delivered by robotic drone planes, dropped in three times a day.  Why toil just to make ends meet when ‘the state’ will provide for me all things necessary to life and happiness.

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