Post by RS Davis on Oct 15, 2003 2:17:12 GMT -5
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- Rick
That, while true, isn't the real issue. It is also true that as free Americans, we have a right to eat whatever we want, when we want, but really, we are long past that. In a country where we are told what chemicals we can and cannot put into our own bodies and under whose authority; where we are told what types of medical treatment we can and cannot seek; where we are told we must wear seatbelts, helmets, and pads; where we are told how fast to drive and in what we can do that; where we are told how we must provide for our own retirement; where we are coerced into buying the "right" products; coerced into stopping unhealthy behaviors; coerced into starting our businesses in the "right" areas, all with our collective hearty thumbs-up, haven't we lost the moral certainty to bitch about it by now?
Before we start a national debate on second-hand cholesterol, we need to look in the mirror and see how we got here. It was really inevitable. As we talked about the evils of Communism, Fascism, Nazism--spoke with spiteful bile of Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Mussolini, Chairman Mao--we were embracing and creating, in the finest Fabian tradition, our own little patchwork Socialist Republic, all the while ignoring the fact that those men didn't create socialism--it created them.
All Socialist roads lead to one place: Totalitarianism. This is not because it opens the door to an evil ruler or rulers. It's not because we aren't enlightened (we've all but forgotten the Age of Enlightenment). It's not because Socialism is a wonderful ideal, ruined by the imperfection of humanity--in fact, it's ruined by man's virtue. It is because the natural impetus of Socialism is toward totalitarianism. There's no way around it. As Ayn Rand said, "The basic issue is only: Is man free? In mankind's history, capitalism is the only system that answers: Yes."
Before we start a national debate on second-hand cholesterol, we need to look in the mirror and see how we got here. It was really inevitable. As we talked about the evils of Communism, Fascism, Nazism--spoke with spiteful bile of Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Mussolini, Chairman Mao--we were embracing and creating, in the finest Fabian tradition, our own little patchwork Socialist Republic, all the while ignoring the fact that those men didn't create socialism--it created them.
All Socialist roads lead to one place: Totalitarianism. This is not because it opens the door to an evil ruler or rulers. It's not because we aren't enlightened (we've all but forgotten the Age of Enlightenment). It's not because Socialism is a wonderful ideal, ruined by the imperfection of humanity--in fact, it's ruined by man's virtue. It is because the natural impetus of Socialism is toward totalitarianism. There's no way around it. As Ayn Rand said, "The basic issue is only: Is man free? In mankind's history, capitalism is the only system that answers: Yes."
Click here to read the whole Freedom File...
- Rick
