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Justin wrote:

"Americans are an ornery, cantankerous, individualist lot, and always have been.... the determination to be happy, and find individual self-fulfillment, and to hell with the myth of collective "goals" and "national purpose" ­ is, in reality, their greatest virtue. This nation was founded in a libertarian revolution, which was also an anti-imperialist struggle against a colonial master that thought it was the center of the universe...."

It is all very heartwarming and inspiring, however it is the same old outdated horseshit that has been around for a donkey's age and keeps fueling the decline of america into totalitarianism. This is the WORST part of libertarianism in America - the delusion that the people will somehow "come to their senses" and take back any part of their liberty. It ain't going to happen. Justin's drunk.

For a sober outlook, see Butler Shaffer's article. He's not one of my favorite people, but he's got this nailed cold:

"Panglossian optimists continue to hope ­ as they would at the death-bed of a loved one ­ for a miracle to reverse the terminal course.... "In the outpouring of individual compassion and cooperation following the disaster in New Orleans, the state discovered a threat to its existence. Political systems thrive only through division and conflict; by getting people to organize themselves into mutually-exclusive groups which then fight with one another."

http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer118.html

The citizens of the uSA are under siege by their own institutions - and only a miniscule number of them are aware of this. There is going to be no revival - of dignity or anything else. There is going to be conflict and nastiness ... and concentration camps. Because the government is fighting for its life ... and the vast majority of the people are on the side of the PRINCIPLE of authority, despite all of their pretensions to being ornery, cantankerous and individualists.

Thanks, Richard, for this comment. I may have been drunk too, when I spoke of that dignity, and full of wishful thinking; but, as you know, on Pagode Light coconut juice ("On Pagode Light coconut?! Is that alcoholic? [...] It does WHAT? I want me some of that coconut stuff."), unlike your "minuscule number" above as much on booze as the mainstream...

As in democracy frustration rules.