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Tuesday, September 6. 2011

Political QQQ

George Santayana on the modern Liberal, 100 years ago:


 “his ultimate satisfaction in his work is not founded on any good done, but on a passionate willfulness. He calls the thing he wants for others good, because he wants to bestow it on them, not because they naturally want it for themselves. Incapable of sympathy, he has a momentary pleasure in policy.”


As quoted in Bergner's Mugged by Mythology - Liberals believe the darnedest things.

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We've said this before: most "progressives" are really nanny-bullies. They are sure they know what is best for others and intend to get it, by reason or by persuasion or by compulsion. It is an ugly form of tyranny to claim that we must be protected from ourselves, from our own choices, rather than from our government's intrusions or from our neighbor's malice. It's ugly whether it's proclaimed in the name of God or the name of the "people".
At least the feudal lord made little pretense of governing for the good of the ceorl and the serf, for all that most feudal lords did make some effort at caring for their thralls.
#1 Geoff Brown on 2011-09-06 13:15 (Reply)
I couldn't locate the exact reference [His criticism of Faust], but I wonder when this was written by G.S. The liberals of 100 years ago looked a lot like conservatives today: anti-socialist, emerging from the blighted thinking of laissez-faire, and definitely pro-capitalist. The Road to Serfdom by Hayek offer some insight into this "philosophy". If G.S. wrote this in the 60's. then he was probably talking about what we know today as a "liberal", which means they aren't liberal at all. Hayek was flummoxed by the appropriation of the label by the left. I agree; most conservatives today are the true liberals.
#2 steve in CT on 2011-09-06 18:46 (Reply)

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