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>> Uh, Strawman, Orwellian wisdom was that England needed a socialist
>> revolution. It is amazing how people who have clearly never read him beyond
>> Animal Farm have appropriated his name solely because he hated Stalinism. Uh, Derida, the quote about the boot stamping on the human face forever comes
from Orwell's 1984, not Animal Farm. But I agree with your basic point. Hero worshiping anyone is dangerous,
because many of them turn out to have very bad sides of their character. As an example - I agree with almost everything that Richard Dawkins says about
Selfish Gene
Theory, and he has some smart things to say about unions and religion too,
but as Tex points in his blog -
politically the guy it a total nut-case. >> And I must say I find your evident power-worship disquieting coming from
>> someone who claims to be a libertarian. I am not aware of ever having claimed to be a libertarian in this forum,
please let me know where this is, and I'll do either a Stalinist rewrite or a
Saddamesque denial. My reasons for
not calling myself a libertarian, on the
other hand, are well documented on this forum. >> Having might does not make you virtuous
>> - indeed, it tends to corrupt you. It's not so much admiration of the power of the US as rejoicing at the weakness of
corrupt repressive socialist regimes like
Syria's. It's the lesser of the two evils. Having said that, the US is one of the most libertarian countries
on this planet (apart from a few lawless anarchies which don't
really count), and it's no coincidence that they are also the world's most
powerful nation. [A smart dictator who wants to maximize their military power will set up
libertarian society and tax it at the long term maximum Laffer rate].
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