tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post7567839617152925311..comments2024-03-28T21:41:32.110-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: Conflicts of InterestGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-22992390260575687952016-12-14T04:56:52.639-05:002016-12-14T04:56:52.639-05:00Crony Capitalism was always better than social dem...Crony Capitalism was always better than social democratic welfare capitalism. So said the robber Baron Democrats at least. Then again, Trum being a 70 yo NY Democrat fits in there with the Rockefellers. Ymar Sakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-85260128037528375872016-12-12T21:26:28.830-05:002016-12-12T21:26:28.830-05:00Dude, you're reading Vox? Quit wasting your ti...Dude, you're reading Vox? Quit wasting your time and do something productive, like banging your head against a wall. Eric Blairnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-90964486678746361032016-12-12T21:18:46.359-05:002016-12-12T21:18:46.359-05:00I will also note that this is very much a blindnes...I will also note that this is very much a blindness of the left, to think that money is the only hidden motivator that should be recognised. Status, power, honor, admiration, security, revenge - all these have long histories as motivators of evil men, or the ruin of good ones. All of them mean more to me than money. How many of Shakespeare's heroes fall because of money? How many Greek dramatists focus on filthy lucre as the only sin of bad men? <br /><br />Three guesses why those questions are not even asked.<br /><br />This brings up a question I will address immediately at my own site.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-22571482644133043932016-12-12T21:10:30.769-05:002016-12-12T21:10:30.769-05:00I'd rather have rulers who were out to fleece ...I'd rather have rulers who were out to fleece us than out to fix us. The CS Lewis Quote from <i>God In The Dock</i> has been quoted a little more each year, hasn't it? <br /><br />“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.com