Posted on 05/30/2012 6:38:08 PM PDT by Lazamataz
re: It's part of an ongoing effort to shift Free Republic into being a source of original content...
Hear, hear! Especially since we've lately been a source of far too much un-original, irrational discontent... g
Thank you, sir!
I was going to ask if I could send it out as email. Gonna keep bumpin.....
May I suggest a unique keyword to tie these articles together, yet not one associated with your some of your more humorous postings.
LAZAMATAZOPED, etc...
I have come to understand the threat of socialistic progressivism as far more insidious than its economic system which most Americans know how to detect and have an innate aversion to adopting.
Socialism originally redefined the purpose of the government of a state overall.
Where general order, including protection of property and freedom from arbitrary application of power, i.e., equality under a benign "rule of law" was the governmental outline at the time of our founding, this tradition, handed down by the English/Scottish enlightenment was perverted by the later French imitation. Jumping beyond that minimal Order for freedom to become ordered liberty is where the misstep occurs.
Government became a rationalistic animal with purposes of a rationalistic nature with goals of its own by definition. These goals, whether expressed as Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity or as any of the other utilitarian catch phrases, has been an alluring tool to the mildly educated -- let us have General Will and all the good that shall come of it.
This unlimited, Utopian vision of the purpose of government is the true foe -- not just the economic systems spawned to fund such an infinite engine.
In the USA, this has been facilitated by our history as a ground breaking people. We were first animated by our colonial isolation and freedoms which became enshrined in our animating document, the Declaration. We then had a Founding document, the Constitution. We have always striven to have the later achieve the general principles set forth in the former as political allowable by prudent properly adopted reform -- Burkian Conservatism. When the changes have been drastic, civil war followed or was required.
Our media and academic culture have perverted the vision of the nominal purposes of government, first and foremost. While people know to watch for the socialist economic model as foreign and poisonous, those slip in anyway as inevitable once the general purpose of government has been thwarted with adoption of General Will rationalistic programs.
Cool! You keep writing, we'll keep reading! :-)
BTTT
Big Giant Head
How come everyone has a cool screen name but me?
What? Your name is world wide famous, notorious, infamous, and is synomymous with the age-old male tradition of chasing females and attempting to hit them.
Mine is my real name. Friends call me Mr. Big. Unless they’re not good friends.
Hey Laz, good stuff as usual!
Please add me to you pinglist.
Will do! And thanks for the kind words!
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