Tuesday, April 10, 2012
"... it is my guess, if not prediction, that neo-liberal sympathies... and by neo-liberal let it be clearly understood I distinguish this effete glimmering from the classical liberalism found in esteemed luminaries like Locke and Hume... but neo-liberal sympathies plague Western democracies as the natural consequence of the ebb and flow of freedom... and that this plague must run its course and bring these democracies to the very edge of doom before a correction will make itself available... when we get to the point where a Hollywood personality recommends their fervent belief in the rightness of some particular course of action and the public generally realizes without remedial instruction that this recommendation is wholly idiotic, disastrously naive and transparently self serving... at that point we can take comfort, for the correction will be at hand..."