There’s no room for violence in our political discourse? But politics is merely war by other means. Political discourse within the state inherently involves the threat of violence and is ultimately backed by it.
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
How close can a person get to the heart of a matter, and still pull back — just in time! — to avoid accepting any deep truth?
The answer seems to be: Very close. Microscopically close. Nanite-nudging nearness, measured in nanometers.
That margin of closeness was today put into black ink courtesy, once again, of Nobel Laureate economist and New York Times op-ed scribbler, Paul Krugman.
In “A Tale of Two Moralities,” Krugman once again hallucinates that a variant of libertarianism — unnamed, of course, and identified with “the right” — as being a major player in recent politics. He says the two moral notions that divide our nation, today, are as follows:
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