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| Socialism Corrupts and Absolute Socialism Corrupts Absolutely |
| 2017-09-21 |
| h/t Instapundit There is a scene in one of Leo Frankowski’s Cross-Time Engineer series in which his main character ‐ a time-displaced engineer trying to prepare Poland for the Mongol onslaught ‐ comes across a rampaging Mongol party and a bunch of merchants. In this scene, the Mongols order the merchants to kneel and present necks. And then start beheading them. Frankowski’s character intervenes and slaughters the raiding party of Mongols, saving the merchants, then asks the merchants why they obeyed the order to kneel, knowing they’d be slaughtered. "Because otherwise, they’d do something worse," the merchants say. I think of that scene every time I’m in Europe and dealing with the "local style" ‐ or even here ‐ interacting with the kind of government bureaucracy that expects us to kneel and present our necks. By and large here it’s not advanced to the point of making us fully helpless, unless it’s in specialized areas and circumstances, like say New Orleans after Katrina. Europe, though... |
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