Good stuff Rogue!
I could read stuff like that all day.
"For example: If (A) my idea of freedom conflicts with (B) your idea of freedom then (C) neither of us can be free until everyone agrees to be a slave."
I have been rolling that one through my head for at least an hour.
" The Hegelian dialectic is the ridiculous idea that constant conflict and continual merging of opposite ideologies, as established by extreme right or left belief systems, will lead spiritual mankind into final perfection. (Americans understood man's spiritual quests to be outside the realm of government control). "
Wow. Talk about hitting the sweet spot. We need the government to keep us free, we cannot be free if government continues to grow. The ultimate conflict.
"Hegel's brilliance rests in his ability to confuse and obfuscate the true motives of the planners, and millions of people world-wide have been trying to make sense of why it doesn't work for over 150 years. But like the AA definition of insanity, the world keeps trying it over and over expecting different results. ..."
So what is the alternative? Utopia? These conflicts are now so well defined and ingrained. How do we break the cycle?
First idea: Break up the 2-party system.
"Give me Liberty, or give me... deathtotaxes"
