E PLURIBUS UNUM

“The fact that no religion has been able to give a satisfactory reason for the existence of evil has certainly kept human beings on their toes during the brief respites that we are allowed between those ages of faith which can always be counted upon to create that we-state which seems so much to intrigue Lessing and her woollies, a condition best described by the most sinister of all Latin tags, e pluribus unum.”

This quote is taken from an essay by Gore Vidal published on December 20, 1979, in The New York Review of Books under the title Lessing's Science Fiction and thus does not refer to the German Gotthold-Ephraīm Lessing of the 18th century, but to the British Doris Lessing of the 20th.

What's the occasion? The following!

Happy Birthday to you, Gore, greatest man!

Gore Vidal is becoming 80 (eighty) today! As it happens, exactly on the German national holiday Tag der Deutschen Einheit (Day of German Unity)! He is neither responsible for this nifty coincidence nor for that fatal e pluribus unum, that has led the Germans and their foreign victims repeatedly into evil..., nor the EU taking over from the Germans in promoting that wrongful principle.

Unity of the Individual, Not of the Nation!

Instead of gluing all individuals together into the straitjacket of a forced collective on a monopolist national territory and thus separate them from all their natural rights, their happiness and good fortune, their hopes, and also their material possessions, one should respect the sovereignty of the indivisible individual that belongs only to itself, owned by no one else. To allow freedom, responsibility, creativity, possibilities for experimentation and finally true prosperity. By introducing panarchism those who would prefer to remain with the old system (but only for themselves!) could live peacefully next to those intent on rushing forward into a different and better future. To each the government of his/her dream! Introduced in some country, it could then become an export hit. Just think what a good solution it would be for Afghanistan or Iraq.

Even Texas could profit from it. ;-) The great imperialist warrior Bush could follow in Napoleon's footsteps. Like that Bonaparte he invades countries in the name of revolutionary, sorry, democratic ideas, gets his slow but sustained Waterloo Retard in Iraq and as for the island of Elba he could always find a cell in a well-publicized corner of the island of Cuba. Dressed in fancy clothes, his hand on his weak spot (whichever it is these days; Laura, can you help us maybe?), he could, when his term is over, become the permanent Emperor of his incorrigible Neocon Republican Fan Club, but most definitely only at the risk and expense of that Crawford panarchy and its voluntary monarchist members. What a relief!