Posted on 12/27/2009 10:55:42 AM PST by kristinn
Wow. How long did it take you to write that?
Of course :-)
Alex Jones is a patriot and a pretty sharp guy. Unfortunately he went off the rails into conspiracyville.
Awwww, somebody call a wahmbulance for the Paulies.
Maybe some cheese to go with their whine?
Alex Jones and the SF Examiner????? BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA.....surely you mean this as a method for getting us all to laugh——right?
C'mon kristinn...you know that stormfront marched in public in Palm Beach county Fl for G.W. Bush during the disputed vote count in 2000. And 500 dollars from Don Black makes Paul compromised by stormfront? You are better then this weak association-guilt claptrap.
So it would seem that Ron sees himself as a potential leader in Paleoconservatism?
“Conservatives” have spilt into as many sects as liberals.
At this stage, the winds of change are howling around the family and many more are coming. We have desiced to batten down the hatches and hope for the best, which is unlikely to happen.
Pray that this Nation can survice.
What would possess him to include democraticunderground as a “good” site?
And people say I’m long-winded.
LOL
I read and listen to FR/Rush on my own free will. No one keeps me on a plantation.
BTW, I really never heard of these guys—except once in a while the infowars stuff I’ll see.
Are they the new John Birch’s, seeing conspiracy even in conservatism?
Professor Ortega y Gasset analyzes this state of mind extremely well. The mass-man, he says, confronting the phenomenon of the State,
“sees it, admires it, knows that there it is. . . . Furthermore, the mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own. Suppose that in the public life of a country some difficulty, conflict, or problem, presents itself, the mass-man will tend to demand that the State intervene immediately and undertake a solution directly with its immense and unassailable resources. . . . When the mass suffers any ill-fortune, or simply feels some strong appetite, its great temptation is that permanent sure possibility of obtaining everything, without effort, struggle, doubt, or risk, merely by touching a button and setting the mighty machine in motion.”
It is the genesis of this attitude, this state of mind, and the conclusions which inexorably follow from its predominance, that we are attempting to get at through our present survey. These conclusions may perhaps be briefly forecast here, in order that the reader who is for any reason indisposed to entertain them may take warning of them at this point, and close the book.
The unquestioning, determined, even truculent maintenance of the attitude which Professor Ortega y Gasset so admirably describes, is obviously the life and strength of the State; and obviously too, it is now so inveterate and so widespread - one may freely call it universal - that no direct effort could overcome its inveteracy or modify it, and least of all hope to enlighten it.
This attitude can only be sapped and mined by uncountable generations of experience, in a course marked by recurrent calamity of a most appalling character. When once the predominance of this attitude in any given civilization has become inveterate, as so plainly it has become in the civilization of America, all that can be done is to leave it to work its own way out to its appointed end. The philosophic historian may content himself with pointing out and clearly elucidating its consequences, as Professor Ortega y Gasset has done, aware that after this there is no more that one can do.
“The result of this tendency,” he says, “will be fatal. Spontaneous social action will be broken up over and over again by State intervention; no new seed will be able to fructify. Society will have to live for the State, man for the governmental machine. And as after all it is only a machine, whose existence and maintenance depend on the vital supports around it, the State, after sucking out the very marrow of society, will be left bloodless, a skeleton, dead with that rusty death of machinery, more gruesome than the death of a living organism. Such was the lamentable fate of ancient civilization.”
CHAPTER 5
Our Enemy, The State
by Albert J. Nock - 1935
long winded perhaps...but accurate.
Rush spared us for a reason. He likes us. I listened to AJ one afternoon on a long drive. That was enough.
I choose Rush, and sanity.
I’m licensed to diagnose (in Texas). Kristen is just alert & has a different sense of humor.
thanks for posting
i need a good dose of Ron every now and then
i like about 90% of what he says...
his commitment to non-intervention is wrong, IMHO. i think if he would just be more reasonable on his foreign policy i could vote for him all the way.
he has the role of government right (less is more)
he has personal freedom originating with individual liberty and idividual responsibility
he understands the power elite and their disenfranchisment from the people
he understands the consequences of fiat currency and bank directed financial governing
but he thinks (if i understand it correctly) that we can withdraw from the world and not suffer consequences....he sees that our engagement has consequences, sometimes bad ones, but discounts any possibility that disengagement could be worse.
its his fatal flaw. with that, i cannot trust him with government no matter how much i agree on the other issues.
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