[Alberta's Child]

This was exactly the kind of situation Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gassett envisioned when he penned his timeless classic "The Revolt of the Masses" in the 1930s. He went to great lengths to describe the perils of a society in which so many people -- even despite their competence in areas of work such as medicine, law, etc. -- were so utterly ignorant about an increasingly complex world that they were a threat to social stability.

"A society will not last long," he said (I paraphrase), "if it is filled with otherwise intelligent people whose response to a bread shortage is to burn the bakery to the ground."

[flashbunny]

--"A society will not last long," he said (I paraphrase), "if it is filled with otherwise intelligent people whose response to a bread shortage is to burn the bakery to the ground."--

There are many here, sadly, that would do just that.

Not with their own hands. No, they're not savages. Instead they'll do it by proxy with the government. Like civilized, caring people, they'll make everyone's life more miserable to assuage their misguided conscience.

[OldFriend]

Rudy Giliani had other ideas about burning down the bakery!

He has his detractors on FR, but this disaster has made a very important point.

Even if Landrieu and the assorted idiots in LA were pro life, the fate of the people would have been the same.