"So long as we are willing to include death among possible alternatives, we shall always be free to choose." James Burnam
In my latest National Post column I point out that only the government would put a big wall of wet snow and ice across your driveway to solve its snow-on-a-public-street problem and expect you to be grateful. P.S. A correspondent alerts me that the proper name for such a thing is a "windrow". Which beats a lot of things you might call it when you get up in the morning in a hurry to get to work or school and find it there sneering at you.
In my latest National Post column I urge social democrats to talk to real people about real things, and listen to them. Things like that government isn't working very well.
"There are some people who say that they want Socialism, but do not want bureaucracy. Such persons I leave in simple despair. How any calculating creature can think that we can extend the number of Government offices without extending the number of Government officials and the prevalence of the official mind, I cannot even conjecture. Some people look forward to a splendid transformation of the general human soul. That is a good argument for accepting Socialism – and, when one comes to think of it, an even better reason for doing without it." G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News January 2, 1909, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 20 # 1 (Sept.-Oct. 2016)
In my latest National Post column I ponder NDP MP Niki Ashton's contribution to the "revolt of the elites" against the elites on behalf of the elites.
In my latest National Post column I say don't let the government wear us down so we accept military procurement that takes forever to buy almost nothing.
In my latest National Post column I wonder how a person as apparently sensible as our federal Finance Minister could have started talking such nonsense so quickly after becoming a politician.
In my latest National Post column I suggest that punk rockers and other postmoderns hate and love big government because we've done the Nietzche transvaluation thing. Choice doesn't mean deciding between existing alternatives including right and wrong anymore. Now it means dictating what alternatives should exist and deciding for ourselves what shall be right. Conformity can be rebellion, awful art can be great, big can be small, down can be up, anything we like. Or so we like to think.