The Decay and Fall of the West

Pajamas Media ^ | December 10 | Bernard Chapin

[AJKauf]

Is our society losing its way? An interview with psychiatrist and thinker Dr. Theodore Dalrymple.

Bernard Chapin: In your essay, “The Roads to Serfdom,” you refer to a famous quote by George Bernard Shaw, who said, “We are all socialists now.” Are we all on the brink of becoming socialists once again? Why do you think, given the oppressive and pernicious nature of this method of governance, it remains politically viable?

Dr. Dalrymple: I think it more likely that there will be an increase in corporatism than in socialism. America will not be socialist, but it might be corporatist (there is always a tendency to this deformation in modern societies). You will find an increase in public spending with an increase in contracts given to businessmen with political contacts or who are politically pliable. Mr. Obama strikes me as a Blair figure rather than, say, a Leninist. ...

[MahatmaGandu]

No worries. We’ll all be dhimmis long before we’re socialists.

[MrB]

On the contrary, I think we’ll be temporarily socialists in order to weaken our country so that we’ll then become permanent dhimmis.

[griswold3]

There’s a reason many small entities are merging to become ‘too big to fail’....

Crony Capitalism 2.0

[Leisler]

If you follow the history of Islam's growth, at it's edge it offers the poor lower taxes, if not escape from taxes, less regulation. Islamic converts and conversion is half fueled by the sword, and the other half because it offers a way less bureaucratic and lower tax society.