Posted on 08/18/2019 4:25:35 PM PDT by poconopundit
Edited on 08/18/2019 5:00:24 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Not in every case, apparently - or after two decades, I’d be a genius at it.conservatism_IS_compassion - Since Feb 27, 1999
Funny, I have had Germans describe the sound of American English, as opposed to English English, much the same, as though we have no inflection in our voice whatsoever. I usually inform my German friends that it is for the same reason that they talk funny, they have no idea where to put the accent.
Thank you for commenting on the post, it is one of which I am very proud but I am curious to know how you ran across it eight months after the fact?
Heh, I do believe it was a “belated” post from Freeper Conservatism_is_Compassion who was discussing in post #35 how he has an inbred bias against posts that are presented in a fancy format and how he is more interested in the content...which I agree with, except we all know that presentation counts too! (I think of how useless it is to read a block of text from a post where someone may have introduced a single HTML tag somewhere and forgot about it)
While I was reading it, I saw your post, and did not realize that the thread was older. (I had a similar disorienting experience from a post several years ago that invited a post from someone else to me in much the same fashion!)
I always read your posts when I see them NB. I find your perspectives presented to be just a little angled from what we are accustomed to see here on FR, and in a good way.
Anyway, hope all is well in your corner of the woods...:)
BookMark
Today the sheltering in place requirements have been loosened and vehicular as well as pedestrian traffic has increased noticeably. Facemasks are now apparent.
Always sensitive to Marxism masquerading as political correctness, I observed throughout the time that Germany was more fully shut down that bicycles were still very much in evidence on the roads but golf courses were and still are shut. I recall when we were building a golf course here we had trouble getting zoning approval because it was regarded as an upper-class activity but walking and bicycling are very much approved of by the greens. Even then class consciousness was part of green ideology.
As a not so innocent conservative abroad, I am curious to see what emerges in the marketplace and the workplace in the wake of this virus.
Hoo boy, that does remind me of this graphic from a Saturday Evening Post (I think) article back in the 1940's from Hayek's The Road To Serfdom:
Thanks for the ping back to this great thread, c_I_c. Tremendous posters here.
“let it rip”
Way more often than not, that’s me. I’m old. I was going to attach Phil Collins “I don’t care anymore” music to my post here. Instead I’ll leave everyone with this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw_6kRiNF28
Respect and love
The authors 9
Foreword by Edwin J. Feulner Jr 11
Introduction: Hayek, Fisher and The Road to Serfdom by John Blundell 14
Preface to the Reader’s Digest condensed version of The Road to Serfdom 26
Summary 27
The Road to Serfdom (condensed version) 31
Planning and power 32
Background to danger 34
The liberal way of planning 37
The great utopia 39
Why the worst get on top 43
Planning vs. the Rule of Law 49
Is planning ‘inevitable’? 51
Can planning free us from care? 53
Two kinds of security 58
Towards a better world 62
The Road to Serfdom in cartoons 63
About the IEA 82
Readers' Digest Condensed Version of the Road to Serfdom (in PDF format)
(Your particular cartoon frame, page 80)
Dang it, kind of scary to read, now that I think of it.
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