Let's cheer up!

It looks as if I/we had no reason to. I have been cut from cyberspace, which to me means (almost) the world, for several months. A few things nevertheless reached my cave. Two major libertarian columnists, incidentally two of my personal favourite ones, one even an author of this site, announced (Fred Reed on September 28, Jonathan David Morris a month earlier) their discontinuing of their column, use the words hiatus and sabbatical, but leave it entirely open whether it will one day be resumed or not. I don't know, but I guess, I haven't checked, that there have been other similar incidents in the libertarian movement during my own involuntary "sabbatical." I also learned that libertarian attendance at this year's (maybe too) many conferences was mostly extremely low, in some cases broke negative records, bringing some of the best into financial trouble.

So our so necessary and so dedicated and self-sacrificing business is in the doldrums... Add to this that governments all over the world grow like overfed babies, sucking our tits to make it look natural, giving back only the diluted artificial and unhealthy bottled milk of inflation. They'll soon lead us to bankruptcy, when, fed on that carbon dioxide myth of their own making, they'll be blown up like balloons and explode in our faces.

I drew the attention of a few friends to this picture looking like despair. Here is what John Zube had to say about it:

"Dear Christian,

It was always easy to be a pessimist - a glance at the news in mass media is enough.
One has to work hard and intelligently at becoming and remaining an optimist, i.e. seeing and using the remaining chances and their potential.
Most people were not even aware that they are serving life-time prison sentences as innocent people in nation-wide gaols. So they did not consider escaping them.

The positive signs of the times need frequent assembling and publication, particularly for freedom lovers, just as cheer leaders are needed in public ball games.

PIOT, John."

So, let's be cheer leaders!*

*Will have to think of shaving my legs first... ;-)