Notable: Signs of Intelligent Life
[04-JAN-08]
THE [RON] PAUL DEMOGRAPHIC is essentially
the same group of people the Left was attempting to organize
at its apex in the 1930s, before we became a mostly irrelevant
group of detached navel gazers, and postmodern-bullshiters. If
we want any kind of revolution, large or small, we better stop
being diversity-mongers, claiming we embrace everyone, aside
from those we disagree with. How the Left could be so out of
touch with regular Americans is beyond me.
Joshua Frank, The Failures of Sectarianism
Joshua Frank, The Failures of Sectarianism
[29-Dec-07]
PEASANTS TOILING ON A LATIFUNDIA at the borders of the late Roman Empire,
should they have been overrun by the "barbarians," actually found
the tribute exacted by the wild barbarian tribes lower than that mulcted by
their erstwhile Roman imperial masters. The sustainment costs of the empire,
its sybaritic court, and its hideously expensive military, were simply too high
by that point. When enough peasants caught on, the Roman Empire was doomed,
not by military invasion, but by the fact that its subjects no longer believed
the whole imperial contraption benefited them.
Werther, Flying Potlatch
Werther, Flying Potlatch