[tpaine]

Just ran across a great observation on the progress of liberty:

On The Brink - CATO's Lindsey and Ignotarians Address:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/863784/posts

"Progress occurs when some bicycle makers ignore the experts, realize no one has actually thought the mechanics of flight through, and start looking at gulls and saying, "Exactly how the devil do they do that?"
For the first time in history what Cicero called the unstated alliance of the good, -- wise and decent men in all countries are comparing notes.
They are rapidly realizing that the ills of the world are not because of climate, race, gender, or the economy doing this or some ideology doing that.

Like a plague bacillus, they have isolated the mother of all human vice, --- coercion, --- and its institutions, -- government and gangsterism, -- as the vector and contaminators of all systematic and widespread human institutional social ills.

They are finding in particular that government and all its works, far from being the physician it pretends, is like ignoramus plague doctors creating and spreading the disease."

[Zon]

Nice find. From the same article:

They know that 1000 different Libertarian or libertarian-direction solutions, spawned by a common principle, work each separately and unsung in a 1000 different countries and places, and will not settle for the ‘worst practice’ of less.

For they also know that the country whose people first develop the wisdom to put these solutions to work combined all at once in their country will stamp their seal, so ending the saddest chapters of human history; and set their signature on the dawn of the most promising human times

The common principle is the prohibition of initiation of force, fraud and coercion. That leaves it to business and science to understand nature and then control nature. Thus it is an individual revolution and need not be formed as a common group that can be attacked as a whole. In turn, the status quo establishment doesn't know how to deal with individualism. They're being undermined and out-competed and literally have no winnable recourse. Save for joining the revolution by putting the individual first and accepting responsibility for their past crimes and deceptions foisted on what was then an unsuspecting masses.

[Roscoe]

they have isolated the mother of all human vice, --- coercion, --- and its institutions, -- government and gangsterism, -- as the vector and contaminators of all systematic and widespread human institutional social ills.

Fortunately, the Founding Fathers weren't reductionist know-nothings.

"There never was a government without force. What is the meaning of government? An institution to make people do their duty. A government leaving it to a man to do his duty or not, as he pleases, would be a new species of government, or rather no government at all." -- James Madison