Utopia Revisited ...
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It's an old idea: A peaceful global society.
George Orwell explored the idea in 1984, about which he felt so strongly, that he would not treat the tuberculosis that killed him, in order to finish it.
It turns out that the Utopian society is dystopian.
Totalitarian, intrusive, coercive, murderous, barbarian, propagandistic and more.
One of the inherent great aspects of free societies is their relative inefficiency.
On Think Tank a Neo-Con icon (usually) Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan and World-Class sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset jointly mused that it takes three Congresses to get anything done.
That provides protection for you and me.
Ben
It's an old idea: A peaceful global society.
George Orwell explored the idea in 1984, about which he felt so strongly, that he would not treat the tuberculosis that killed him, in order to finish it.
It turns out that the Utopian society is dystopian.
Totalitarian, intrusive, coercive, murderous, barbarian, propagandistic and more.
One of the inherent great aspects of free societies is their relative inefficiency.
On Think Tank a Neo-Con icon (usually) Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan and World-Class sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset jointly mused that it takes three Congresses to get anything done.
That provides protection for you and me.
Ben
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