How Come Nobody's "Going jk?"

Dr. Helen is soliciting suggestions from her readers on how to (legally) "Go John Galt."

Obama talks about taking from those who are productive and redistributing to those who are not -- or who are not as successful. If success and productivity is to be punished, why bother? Perhaps it is time for those of us who make the money and pay the taxes to take it easy, live on less and let the looters of the world find their own way.

This comes from Insty, who links to Dr. Helen so much I am starting to suspect something... Perfesser Reynolds also links to a positive view of today's man-of--the-day Christopher Columbus.

Yet, even as the chroniclers of Nuremberg were correcting their proofs from Koberger's press, a Spanish caravel named Nina scudded before a winter gale into Lisbon with news of a discovery that was to give old Europe another chance. In a few years we find the mental picture completely changed. Strong monarchs are stamping out privy conspiracy and rebellion; the Church, purged and chastened by the Protestant Reformation, puts her house in order; new ideas flare up throughout Italy, France, Germany and the northern nations; faith in God revives and the human spirit is renewed. The change is complete and startling: "A new envisagement of the world has begun, and men are no longer sighing after the imaginary golden age that lay in the distant past, but speculating as to the golden age that might possibly lie in the oncoming future."

Christopher Columbus belonged to an age that was past, yet he became the sign and symbol of this new age of hope, glory and accomplishment. His medieval faith impelled him to a modern solution: Expansion.

There are no new worlds for a rebirth of liberty until we invent starships. My hopes an Atlantis rising out of former Soviet Republics has not borne fruit. I don't see any half-century hope of anything better than making the best of what we have. Try to keep the candle of liberty lit in the USA.

Philosophy Posted by John Kranz at October 13, 2008 12:51 PM