Thanks to my brother, Roland Hoyle for sharing this link in another thread during the course of one of our debates. Very illuminating. Some excerpts: Locke: He who makes an attempt to enslave me thereby puts himself into a state of war with me ---- Hence my disdain for the actions of one Barrack Hussein Obama Men living together according to reason without a common superior on earth, with authority to judge between them, is properly the state of Nature Locke was the seventeenth century precursor of classic liberalism, and Hobbes was the seventeenth century precursor of modern totalitarianism, particularly fascism. Hobbes: I observe the diseases of a Commonwealth that proceed from the poison of seditious doctrines, whereof one is that every private man is judge of good and evil actions ---- this explains why liberals balk when I speak of evil. They cannot stand for any man - any individual - to decide for themselves and judge good and evil. - they require the State (government) to do it for them!! Another infirmity of a Commonwealth is the immoderate greatness of a town, when it is able to furnish out of its own circuit the number and expense of a great army; as also the great number of corporations, which are as it were many lesser Commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man ----- hence the lib-dem/progressive (Leftie) mantra that corporations are evil. WOW! This stuff is so old yet makes so much sense and explains so much about our modern day political conflict!! The race, the nation, the folk, or whatever, are to be welded into a single entity, by the application of whatever force necessary ---- scary stuff - and doubtless the source of many a conspiracy theorists bloviating!! Final comment: Whats interesting about these guys: they did dwell and speculate/postulate (in writing) back in the 17th C. They didnt have our modern day government to ponder. In Lockes case, he was the inspiration for many elements of our glorious constitution. And the battle rages on (in debate) today. I dont get how ANYONE can favor the socialist - Democrat - Lib-dem/progressive (Leftie) view of the world in light of this clear demonstration of the absurd justification of socialism which has as its end game the totalitarian state!!!
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 00:58:34 +0000
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