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A very fine Steyn, and even finer Tocqueville. If the fall into servitude can be "fine"ly observed.
Monday, June 01, 2009
Screw the State that Will Screw.....Oops, Too late
A very fine Steyn, and even finer Tocqueville. If the fall into servitude can be "fine"ly observed.
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De Tocqueville -- that archetypal Dead White Male so much despised by pinkos -- hits the nail on the head when envisioning the Pepean Nirvana:
Over these is elevated an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate. It is absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle. It would resemble the paternal power if, like that power, it had as its object to prepare men for manhood, but it seeks, to the contrary, to keep them irrevocably fixed in childhood … it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs…
The sovereign extends its arms about the society as a whole; it covers its surface with a network of petty regulations—complicated, minute, and uniform—through which even the most original minds and the most vigorous souls know not how to make their way… it does not break wills; it softens them, bends them, and directs them; rarely does it force one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one’s acting on one’s own … it does not tyrannize, it gets in the way: it curtails, it enervates, it extinguishes, it stupefies, and finally reduces each nation to being nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
Ululululu says Pepe.
“Freedom is the desire of every human heart.” Are you quite sure? It’s doubtful whether that’s actually the case in Gaza and Waziristan, but we know for absolute certain that it’s not in Paris and Stockholm, London and Toronto, Buffalo and New Orleans.
Especially not in Nawlins.
So we're just a giant township. So what?
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