[MD] Down the road of mediocrity

[Ant McWatt]

Platt,

Nothing like you to wake me from my "Golden Slumbers"...

You stated March 23rd:

>For a projection of where liberals in the U.S. are leading us, take a look
>at the following description of the socialist paradise in Great Briton:
>
>http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_1_oh_to_be.html

The faults with contemporary British society described in the article you 
cite above has little to do with socialism (a la Robert Tressel, the 
"Cyclist thinker") rather these criticisms (increasing bureaucracy in 
education, the police force etc), are mostly due to British government 
policy over the last 27 years which has generally been right-wing (or "new" 
right-wing since 1997) following your great hero Milton Friedman as per 
Reaganism/Thatcherism (for more details about this right-wing orientated 
increase in bureaucracy, see my essay about the UK education system at 
robertpirsig.org).  At least the American electorate began to turn away from 
such folly last November though there's little hope over here to follow suit 
with no genuine left-wing party to vote for any longer (at least one with a 
reasonable chance of power).

As I mentioned in January, anyone minded as a British anarchist and/or 
Californian-orientated Liberal (i.e. of an MOQ bent) really needs to read 
Tom Hodgkinson's "How to be Free" to see how a Quality way of life can be 
developed in practice.  Please see the following link:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Be-Free-Tom-Hodgkinson/dp/0241143217

Best wishes,

Anthony.


>From: "Platt Holden" <pholden at davtv.com>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>Subject: [MD] Down the road of mediocrity
>Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:33:14 -0500
>
>Hi All,
>
>For a projection of where liberals in the U.S. are leading us, take a look
>at the following description of the socialist paradise in Great Briton:
>
>http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_1_oh_to_be.html
>
>Regards,
>Platt
>
>

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