"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Statist of the Union
Submitted by Westernerd on Sat, 2012-01-28 04:00
"Unsurprisingly, President Obama’s campaign speech masquerading as the routine address to Congress, spelled out in the Constitution and known as the State of the Union, was saturated with every prevalent form of modern American statism—protectionism, corporate-liberal socialism, nationalism, and militarism."
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Pot, kettle, black. Mr. Gregory is a consummate Statist himself, vigorously defending city-Statism (civilization) in previous articles. Thus, he holds a contradiction; I recommend he check his premises.
I am surprised to even see this on STR. These SOTU propaganda spectacles can't be of that much interest to anti-state types like gather here. Nice to hear from Anthony though.
I'm a believer that in each of us is a smidgen of hope. Anthony is young yet -- he may yet see the light and change his writing style to reflect the illegitimate nature of "the government". "The government" is a fictitious entity when you think about it -- only individuals ACTING in the NAME of supposed "government" exist.
But as I typed a few minutes ago on another thread, many of them are dangerously armed in addition to being sociopathic.
I always believe a sociopath with a gun.
Sam
Neoteny. You don't show much. (That's a compliment, Sam.) Now look around you.
If you aren't familiar with the word, it's defined and analyzed well in the following article:
"...Humans from domesticated cultures also show the same neotenous behaviors so often found in other domesticated animals..."
Re-Wilding Humans
by Jason Godesky | July 30, 2007
http://rewild.info/anthropik/2007/07/rewilding-humans/index.html