Returning to the Old World?

06 Nov 08

We are entering a dark time. Paraphrasing Jefferson, critical of Old World:

European tradition dictates that citizens cannot be restrained within the limits of order and justice, except by barbarous, arbitrary force, wielded over them by "authorities" who are accountable to no one. Hence, kings, dukes, barons, priests, and an army of appointed bureaucrats. They deem it necessary to keep citizens gasping for breath, through poverty, terror, harassment, dependency, and ignorance, and to confiscate, as from bees, so much of their earnings, that incessant labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus only to scarcely sustain a scanty and miserable existence. These"taxes" they then freely apply to themselves in order to maintain their privileged and conspicuously consumptive orders in splendor and idleness, to fascinate the eyes of the ignorant, and excite in them an abased adoration and perpetually inebriated submission, as to an aggregation of gods!

It appears we are returning to the Old World!

/John