Reviving American Liberty

I think Faux Capitalism summarizes nicely what's gone in Canada and the USA since 9/11.

It's perverse I know but true. It's how I learned it.

Canada has become more free, ironically, under the dreaded Harper government. It aims, for political expedience or otherwise, to be less intrusive to the derision of people who have uncritically accepted the state as natural law. Governments don't even bother to produce empirical evidence in some cases (as I learned in daycare) for laws they enact and enforce and people just blindly assume there's a reason for it.

The United States, at its most basic root and founded mostly in part by religious "extremist", was once upon a time a nation that changed the course of human history. Up until 1776, and this can never be over told, mankind only knew of bondage in various forms. America obliterated all types of tyrannical shackles by putting Enlightenment philosophy into overdrive. Canada, for its part, played little role in this as it was a spin off (or as one commentator I can't recall once said, "written off as a business expense") of the British empire and so it's normal little or no literature on the ideals of human liberty came from this land.

Truth is, the founders of the nation were more in line with Galliani than Keynes.

They may have argued between each other a lot and even changed personal opinions along the way, but they believed in God; that American power flowed naturally from God. There's no disputing this fact.

They were skeptics and critically and constantly questioned the world around them. It's hard to fathom they'd defend the state (or renegade corporatists) to the obtuse extent we see in some contemporary philosophical circles.

The writings of the American founding fathers galvanized freeman into action. Guess what? Republican (and democracy in general) thought has been on the march ever since.

One thing I respect and admire about the Founding Fathers was the idea that no matter what, man should be in control of his own destiny. No excessive state intrusion must break this sacred sanctity. People who vote to make this trade off don't deserve to be free. How pitiful a society that which only progresses by the hand of the state!

We've fallen for the "it's for our safety" routine a little too hard if you ask me.

We have no control.

Do people not understand this?

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Here's Canada's chance to capitalize on things and produce great writers and thinkers defending the concept of personal sovereignty as its great friend to the south wanders about in a state of sad confusion.