Isabel Paterson: The God of the Machine (quoted by Julian Sanchez)
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.
Shocking examples of anti-authoritarianism, enumerated by Natalie Solent. (Link from Modulator by way of Mindles)
The English Bill of Rights was enacted in October 1689. The US BoR was submitted for ratification in September 1789. Anybody happen to know if the centennial coincidence was played up in the rhetoric of the time?
Ken MacLeod, author of The Stone Canal &c, has a blog. (Thanks, Travis!)
But — oh dear . . .
It’s reminded me of the few times when I’ve felt the clammy suckers of capital’s covert-action tentacles on the back of my own neck.
[ . . . very big cut . . . ]
And that’s one reason why I’ll carry the SSP’s or even the CP’s red flag, even though I don’t agree with everything they stand for. It’s to keep the clammy suckers off my skin.
Of the three tentacles cited here, two belonged to the US Army and the CIA. Does someone as bright as Ken really suppose that a capitalist-free state would not have such organs?
It seems to me that in the Seventies – before John Belushi died – there was talk of relegalizing or decriminalizing the “soft drugs” marijuana and cocaïne. Does anyone else remember that, or am I (ha ha) hallucinating?
Hm, it’s now three years since I dropped out of alt.fan.cecil-adams in a bit of a snit. I left because my writing there had been increasingly sour – whether because of my returning depression or because of the insidious influence of the group’s chief troll, I cannot say – and I did not like what my persona was becoming.
I regret that I went without saying why.