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To: Man50D

It is unfortunate that the author mentions ancient Egypt as an example. A free society is dynamic and allows for change, but usually of an ordered kind. This change is, however, organic - it comes from the people who adopt what works and reject things that don’t work. The goal of the left is a static society, like ancient Egypt, where everything is predetermined by an elite and everyone knows his place. A place where innovation is prohibited. We think of the leftists as wanting a lot of change because they want to undermine things that work (the family, education, etc.). But once they are done with the chaos of overthrowing traditional society, the left will impose a strict, inflexible Marxist orthodoxy that will not tolerate any innovation or change.


32 posted on 06/18/2009 5:03:15 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Wilhelm Tell

Your word “organic” is great.

This comes from the constrained vision that millions of individuals acting in their own self interest guide the direction of society through the “invisible hand” (God’s plan).

The other side thinks that all change is dictated by a few elite humans in power positions.


55 posted on 06/18/2009 6:28:09 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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