If you have not read any Bastiat, you’ve got some ‘splainin’ to do. I re-read (probably for the third time in English) Bastiat’s The Law a few weeks ago. When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. These two evils are of equal consequence, and it would be difficult for a person to choose between them....
I’ve been reading Absolved, piece by piece. It starts with Absolved. It is, in my opinion, a tad on the preachy side, and occasionally, overwhelmingly paleo-nationalist (in a good, “don’t tread on me” sort of way), but hey, that’s just my opinion. I’d recommend giving it a whirl, if you’re not squeamish.
A while back, I read Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano, and had honestly meant to write a critique/review of the novel. Time passed, and the draft got lost along the way somewhere. The idea was revived when I was thinking last night about how all of our productivity is wasted. My first impression was that Piano is vaguely reminiscent of Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. Vaguely. Vonnegut paints a dystopian picture of a future where machines handle...
