SEE HERE Somehow we seem to be hell-bent to revisit the past because once again we've failed to learn its lessons. If free societies collapse in the European Union we may be in for a whole new period of National Socialism, Populist Socialism, Communism, all the other permutations of collectivism that see like solutions until they impoverish their practitioners. I've really never seen a time in my own life when these kinds of prognostications seems so frequent and so relevant and possible. I'm hoping that it is all fear mongering, but it all smells wrong, so I'm not so sure. I wish my own grandfather was around to tell me what it was like when he was alive. He was a young man when the depression hit and saw the run up to all the European fascism and communism as well as our own dalliance with some of these ideas here in the United States. I found his copy of Hayek's "Road to Serfdom" the other day, which seemed appropriate.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Revisiting the Past: A Dark Night!
SEE HERE Somehow we seem to be hell-bent to revisit the past because once again we've failed to learn its lessons. If free societies collapse in the European Union we may be in for a whole new period of National Socialism, Populist Socialism, Communism, all the other permutations of collectivism that see like solutions until they impoverish their practitioners. I've really never seen a time in my own life when these kinds of prognostications seems so frequent and so relevant and possible. I'm hoping that it is all fear mongering, but it all smells wrong, so I'm not so sure. I wish my own grandfather was around to tell me what it was like when he was alive. He was a young man when the depression hit and saw the run up to all the European fascism and communism as well as our own dalliance with some of these ideas here in the United States. I found his copy of Hayek's "Road to Serfdom" the other day, which seemed appropriate.
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