forget everything you thought you knew about ab workouts / OK, done
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007…
Peter Leeson’s shocking argument at Cato Unbound, that “contrary to conventional wisdom, it is simply not true that any government is always superior to no government” meets its immediate match in the unconventional beginning of Mark Lilla’s NYT article, The Politics of God, which begins by characterizing the civilizational crisis of the West in terms of a religious faith — and insisting that both are inseparable…
What both articles have in common … is the request that the reader put aside any preconceived notions that European political development in the late 20th century represented anything like the highest development of civilization. Both imply that we are not at the End of History and the sooner we disabuse ourselves of that idea, the greater our chances at survival.
Put aside my belief that tax-and-spend welfare states that elevate democracy to a higher level than freedom, and disdain theistic ideologies in favor of the faux religions of environmentalism, diversity, and socialism are the highest development of civilization and the end state of mankind?
OK, done.
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