I’ve been cruising that lovely chunk of the blogoshpere that sits somewhere south of the Libertarian suburbs and west of the anarchist meat packing district. Home to a bewildering array of eccentrics and mad geniuses it’s a fun place that I’ve come to enjoy so much that I’m occasionally tempted by the For Sale signs [...]
From that moment on, I was no longer a liberal, a believer in the self-correcting character of American democracy. I was a radical, believing that something fundamental was wrong in this country — not just the existence of poverty amidst wealth, not just the horrible treatment of black people, but something rotten at the root. [...]
Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved. – Albert Camus Juan Cole of Informed Comment not so recently wrote a piece on the worst things about the Bush decade and in [...]
What if human civilization is doomed to see the growth of decadent empire, it’s fall into parochialism, and then the slow calcification of power? What would the Ouroboros state mean for political thought? What position could a good man take in the face of this eternal return?
