My Archives: January 2006
Monday, January 2, 2006
John the Hermit?
There are Johns and johns all over the place. No, I do not mean those johns that are facilities or emblazon JDM's website. Here in Hamburg it would be a big lie to say that they are all over the place. They used to. But they are not anymore. And the populace is very upset about this, but bears the situation stoically, as afraid of the big pimps, the politicians, whom we pay like johns of whores for fake services, as of the pimps in their limousines and sports cars in the red light districts (we have several here!). I mean the upper case Johns, who are all over the place too, with their first names cloned from those of the Johns in the Holy Books (there are several too!), and one in particular, not John the Divine, but John the Humane: John Zube. In his hermit den in the middle of bush fires around Berrima near Sidney (when it would make sense to close the facilities to make all men form rows of firefighters) he has concocted for someone first and then for all of us who are readers of these websites, but are libertarians afraid of extinguishing the fires in the world by leaving the government facilities and taking their hoses into their hands, so to speak, an article called Decidophobia , which is a rare piece (though they are more likely to come from John than from elsewhere) of "encyclopaedic summing up", as I call it: the quintessence of his thoughts taken from many great minds (including his father) and developed over more than half a century with more painstaking assiduity than any of us could muster. He is always a step further, more radical and more encompassing than other freedom fighters, offering so far the completest synthesis. If only those who never listen, the pimps and johns, would listen a bit, and those many who have added first class pieces to the puzzle and cornucopia of freedom ideas and knowledge, would try a bit more to measure their theories up to those best ones, we would advance quicker and be further by now. But it starts.Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 04:14 PM GMT+1 [Link]