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To: i-node who wrote (777285)3/30/2014 5:05:48 PM
From: koan  Respond to of 1576378
 
Of course I can see your politics. You wear them on your sleeve.

There is not one nation that is libertarian because it will not work for a good society.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Will Durant

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And if you are into Ayn Rand here is what I feel about her.

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

— John Rogers

And this from Will Durant:

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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