“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.” ~ G.K. Chesterton
quote for the afternoon
Erik Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a tech blog at Forbes. Visit his politics blog here. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant. You can also contact him via email.
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I’m a pluralist. I prevent myself from correcting my own mistakes.
If you’re a pluralist, doesn’t that mean you make many mistakes?
Many is too nice an adjective.
Libertarianism == “People ought to be able to make their own mistakes.”
Nice!
Socialism = “All mistakes are owned by the state.”
None of us can make as many mistakes as all of us.
And those mistakes ought to be fatal, to ensure that people learn from them.
See? That’s much funnier than Bruce’s.
Except the Conservatives and right-wing Libertarians have become the so-called Progressives. They’re the Neoliberals who almost destroyed the financial system and remain on course to achieve it next time round!
Hi Bruce, could you unpack the neoliberal term you’re using? I’m curious to see if it’s the same definition I understand it to be.
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