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Your argument of not visiting the magazine racks, well, what if I want to buy a magazine? And if I wanted a copy of “Jewish Idolatry”, would I find it next to the “Nazi Party Weekly”? – Sceptical Antagonist in a comment that caused much mirth here in Arkham 😀 May 29th, 2013 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
 The mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own. Suppose that in the public life of a country some difficulty, conflict, or problem presents itself, the mass-man will tend to demand that the State intervene immediately and undertake a solution directly with its immense and unassailable resources. This is the gravest danger that to-day threatens civilisation: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State. – José Ortega y Gasset, Revolt of the Masses (the Spanish original was first published as a series of articles in the newspaper El Sol in 1929 and as a book in 1930)… via the redoubtable serial commenter RRS. May 27th, 2013 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
Do yourself a favour. Just stop watching ‘the news’. Every time in the future you might then occasionally re-watch it, it becomes extremely obvious how manipulated it is, and how the obvious answer to virtually every ‘problem’ it discusses, is that the government should get booted out of whichever area the ‘problem’ is in (e.g. the NHS, various fomented wars around the world, the state of the roads). May 24th, 2013 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
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To the political class, whatever the rhetoric, government programs aren’t tools for improving the country. They’re tools for acquiring the main goal of the political class: more power… – Glen Reynolds (All hail to the Blogfather… PBUHH) in USA Today – April 29, 2013 May 1st, 2013 | 19 comments - (Comments are closed)
…given there is a cross-party consensus that energy rationing is good for growth. – Samizdata commenter Kevin B. April 30th, 2013 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
Dave is going to wake up one morning and find that the Conservative Party website, and any other right-of-centre source of information, is going to be shut away behind an “Over-18” “hate-and-porn” firewall and he will be too stupid to work out what happened. – Samizdata commenter Rob April 26th, 2013 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
“But the only job that someone like Antony Flew would get in a mainstream university today is cleaning the toilets”. If that is true – then cleaning the toilets is the only job worth having. – Paul Marks April 25th, 2013 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
[W]hen you pull a gun the implication is that you will use it. All subsequent actions proceed on that basis. When you raise your interactions to that level here in Wisconsin you should bear in mind that Wisconsin is a concealed carry state. You better be prepared to play for the stakes you wager. – Samizdatista Midwesterner, discussing the implications of coercing people into ‘doing the right thing‘ with threats. April 20th, 2013 | 29 comments - (Comments are closed)
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No. North Korea is not socialism betrayed. It is socialism done. Which everyone here knows, but it is worth repeating. – Brian Micklethwait April 16th, 2013 | 28 comments - (Comments are closed)
States love a few Big Businesses but hate lots of small ones… in essence, if there are more people who actually matter in an industry than can fit around a dinner table with the appropriate Government Minister, then clearly that is a sector that cannot be controlled by the state. And that is intolerable. And of course many Big Businesses also rather like those sort of relationships as a few large competitors with a similar size-to-brain ratio as themselves are much preferred to a whole bunch of innovative small folk who names they don’t even know and who might actually start doing things they did not expect to have to deal with. – Perry de Havilland March 19th, 2013 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
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