tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post5182275450181031732..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: India's SandalistasGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-61175708834486661812008-05-05T06:39:00.000-06:002008-05-05T06:39:00.000-06:00"So, detective, how many fingerprints do we need o..."So, detective, how many fingerprints do we need on the murder weapon before we start to get the pattern?"<BR/><BR/>Your questions about education answer that one very well.<BR/><BR/>You need an education -- and that would be the opposite of what the "progressive" school calls an education, to be able to see, on more than a concrete level, that there is no such thing as a free lunch.<BR/><BR/>The "masses" as leftists like to call the legions that they have neglected or actively sought to harm, fall for the free lunch and fail to see history repeating itself so many times it would be laughable if it weren't so tragic.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-55845717427661619582008-05-05T00:29:00.000-06:002008-05-05T00:29:00.000-06:00If there were a grain of truth in the altruistic f...If there were a grain of truth in the altruistic fiction that the West is reponsible for the plight of the Third World, this would be it. <BR/><BR/>It is no accident that the rhetoric that emanates from those <I>directly</I> responsible for their poverty should sound like it was lifted directly from some third-rate Leftist university screed; they often were educated there! Such an education works so well for this purpose.<BR/><BR/>Well then, what about the cases where the dictator was never educated in the West -- or at all? What if they simply latch onto these ideas as convenient rationalizations for their actions? To such people, I say: those ideas work quite well for the purpose in this mode also -- so what difference does it make?<BR/><BR/>All right, then suppose the murderers simply lift it off the Daily Kos website without caring to understand its meaning -- maybe they don't actually like Kos and want to make him and his site look bad. If that were so, the rhetoric would have a completely random character -- but it doesn't; no, the words of the Left are nearly always the ones chosen. After all, when you have a task to do, why not make use of the most proven ones available for the job?<BR/><BR/>Sometimes the laguage has what the Left's defenders would call a "right-wing" character, which also work very well for that purpose -- but a cursory inquiry into the matter reveals that what they actually mean are the National Socialist sort of "right wing", which being in fact merely the Left's disowned siblings, becomes a meaningless distinction. They work just as well for the purpose, because they carry the same payload to the same end-of-road.<BR/><BR/>So, detective, how many fingerprints do we need on the murder weapon before we start to get the pattern?<BR/><BR/>Curiously, no one has ever attempted to enact a dictatorship by means of advocating *and implementing* capitalism and individual rights. Nobody morally disarms people by exhorting their right to exist. No one has ever demanded that the people selfishly pursue their own personal goals en route to enslaving them. No one has ever tried to rally a flock of followers under the flag of individualism.<BR/><BR/>You see, those ideas just don't work for that purpose. Such is absurd on its face. That road just doesn't go <I>there</I> -- not even in our nightmares.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com