In one sense, it is possible to speak of the current crisis as being about whether individual life and liberty has meaning any longer in a world thronged by ideologies unrestrained in their will to power.
-- Richard Fernandez, proprietor of The Belmont Club, in comments here
We want to be free of restraint, if only to fight those who already are.--wretchard
ReplyDeleteBut isn't this the very thing you endorse, CA--using extralegal force to overthrown the existing social order? Or did you miss the irony in Richard's remonstration?
MALTHUS
"Extralegal"?
ReplyDeleteGoodness, Malthus....
Surely you don't consider yourself bound (except by gunpoint) by any of the reams of local, state, Federal, and international laws and regulations vomited forth by the Combine over the past 100 years, do you?
Let me be clear: the "existing social order" is not long for the world, by its own internal contradictions (e.g., "All for some through most from many", etc.). My concern is what happens then...