"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
heh
Would that this were characteristic of a genuine gut-level response from our congresscritters…
Think about it for a little. What is the likely human product of a society with a surplus wealth of goods and time and a pre-occupation with making life ever safer and safer?
Robert Heinlein (through his character, Lazarus Long) famously said,
“Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can’t help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.”
Well, the first two sentences are obvious. But in a society with huge surpluses of worldly goods and services and a nanny state approach to imposing safety, the last sentence does not necessarily follow the first two. In fact, it seems that such a society breeds and maintains (and encourages) and protects stupidity.
We are that society… the question is: Who benefits (besides the really stupid)?
OK, here’s the deal…
Posit the following situation:
Someone pleads cultural self-defense after popping Ward Churchill.
How many folks do you think would move to Colorado on the off chance of serving on a jury so they could vote “Not guilty”?
Better not let the cultural diversity hate speech police see this!
Calling Islamic jihadist savages “barbaric” pejorates the term.
Not exactly in the ballpark with so-called “Koran desecration” is it?
[Note: I still don’t trust myself to not foam at the mouth on the subject, so I’m limiting my comments on the London bombings. When the “red curtain of blood” in front of my eyes clears up a bit, maybe then… ]
We share many things with our British cousins.
Now including attacks by Islamofacist savages from without and cultural relativist “Death to Western Civilization” pseudo-jihadists in mass media, politics and academia within…
*sigh*
This composite flag will remain close to the header of this blog for a while in recognition of the good, the bad and the downright ugly we share with our cultural cousins in Britain.
