Sipsey Street Irregulars: Another reason why, when the wheels come off the economic system, people in the cities will begin eating each other -- and not just figuratively.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Another reason why, when the wheels come off the economic system, people in the cities will begin eating each other -- and not just figuratively.

Collectivist resentment meets cultural decay.

6 comments:

Santander said...: Interesting... very good read.
I wonder if the perpetrators of these crimes are being hauled in on HATE CRIMES charges.
I hate racism. But getting rid of racism really means eliminating all bias towards or against anyone based on race. That includes elimination of protecting one person more than another because of skin tone.
Tony; May 4, 2010 at 6:46 AM
Dan said...: Dr. Sowell continues to convey the glaring problems with liberal, "Progressive" ideologies.
Why he's not held up as a shining example of what anybody, of any race, can achieve is another example of the disgusting level of vicimhood and race-baiting mentality that has had too srtong a grip on this country for too long.; May 4, 2010 at 1:24 PM
Jimmy the Saint said...: As I've said before, when all the dust finally settles after TSHTF, perhaps the survivors can raise a small obelisk to commemorate those of us who got wiped out protecting our families and friends in the cities.; May 4, 2010 at 6:42 PM
SiGraybeard said...: Dr. Sowell is one of the great thinkers and writers of our time. I believe the only reason he is not more of a celebrity and not held up as shining example to us all is that he is not a left wing stooge.; May 4, 2010 at 7:52 PM
Ace said...: What Dr Sowell describes is the standard collectivist view of hating the good for being good. The same concept permeates the Left's thinking and motivations.; May 4, 2010 at 8:14 PM
Happy D said...: I was planning on eating the collectivists anyway.

Umm tastes just like moron.

Anyone else here a fan of Firefly's Reavers?; May 6, 2010 at 1:31 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Another reason why, when the wheels come off the economic system, people in the cities will begin eating each other -- and not just figuratively.

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