Clearing Baffles

By lex, on March 22nd, 2009

Political liberalism is nationally ascendant, with a crisis to exploit. Unthinkable sums * are being thrown at “the problem” – with amateurs driving the bus *. Serious thinkers wonder whether the underlying premises of such social activism are fatally flawed (while leaving themselves open * to broad critique as to the rigor of their methods). And everywhere, I believe, normal folks like you and me wonder where the bottom is, or even if there is one. Does our economic system find the floor and bounce back up? Or does it crash right through our accepted orthodoxies, leaving us in previously unimagined, undiscovered territory? Which probably isn’t as cool as it sounds.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

"Μολὼν λαβέ"

— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex