Comments on: Service and Power http://www.newclarion.com/2009/04/service-and-power/ Our mission is to combat the unreason and selflessness that are sweeping our culture from the nihilist left to the religious right, and to sound a new ideal of capitalism and individual rights in American politics. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:07:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: L-C http://www.newclarion.com/2009/04/service-and-power/#comment-1495 L-C Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:00:18 +0000 http://www.newclarion.com/2009/04/service-and-power/#comment-1495 "Sacrifice has two sides: those who serve and those who are served. Statists are fine with both; the only thing they cannot abide is free individuals using their own judgment to trade with one another in their mutual self-interest." The realization of the pinnacle of the latter - laissez-faire Capitalism - would embarass and bury the notions of statism in all but the most impenetrable non-minds. Those who claim that "we (including politicians) all want what's best for people, we simply have different ideas as to what that is" should keep the above in mind when they contemplate why these well meaning pragmatists have never, and will never try freedom even once. “Sacrifice has two sides: those who serve and those who are served. Statists are fine with both; the only thing they cannot abide is free individuals using their own judgment to trade with one another in their mutual self-interest.”

The realization of the pinnacle of the latter – laissez-faire Capitalism – would embarass and bury the notions of statism in all but the most impenetrable non-minds.

Those who claim that “we (including politicians) all want what’s best for people, we simply have different ideas as to what that is” should keep the above in mind when they contemplate why these well meaning pragmatists have never, and will never try freedom even once.

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