Originally Posted by
David A. Rowe
I don't even know why we bother to mention this anymore. When Pol Pot decided to cleanse the cities, it was because of his French socialist advisors, and the French have been bully on this sort of crazy since, at least, the Jacobins. The spirit of the mob is as old as humanity, though, and it doesn't give a fuck about listening. It doesn't even care about genocide, famine, and despoiling entire civilizations. It barely notices them as a means to an end -- "Utopia." It's the Avatar of Jealousy and Hubris and Progress. Either everyone from the moderate, populist left (not The Left) to the staunch conservatives seize power through peaceful and valid elections with meaningful legislative reform and shrinking of the federal government in order to restore the sovereignty and rights of the individual -- or it's bloodshed.
There is no historical example where this is not the case. There's no point in discussing it further -- every sane person is in agreement on the important points or order. The time to speak out about this bullshit has passed. Which is exceptionally painful for me to admit, and I have spent these many days re-examining my own life to figure out where I have also failed. Somewhere between Socrates and Crito it was forgotten to sacrifice the rooster to Asklepios, and so the logos in our country has died. If it dies here, does it die everywhere else in the world?
I to my perils
Of cheat and charmer
Came clad in armour
By stars benign.
Hope lies to mortals
And most believe her,
But man's deceiver
Was never mine.
The thoughts of others
Were light and fleeting,
Of lovers' meeting
Or luck or fame.
Mine were of trouble,
And mine were steady;
So I was ready
When trouble came.
-A.E. Housman