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To: Sully- who wrote (73967)	9/10/2009 4:53:56 PM
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What's the Point of Dreaming? By: Jonah Goldberg The Corner A reader asks: <<< Why do the critics of liberal democracy assume that their views would be adopted by their benevolent authoritarian regime? >>> For the same reason that believers in reincarnation always imagine they were once kings or knights or great explorers rather than toothless scullery maids or short-lived and dimwitted male prostitutes in Syrian dungeons, I suppose. More seriously, I think it's because the whole point of the exercise is to imagine a system organized around the one immutable principle of all such dreamers: "In a more perfect world, everything would revolve around ME!" corner.nationalreview.com