(urth) The Devil in a Forest

[David Duffy]

On Mon, 18 May 2009, James Wynn wrote:

> This is answer that socialist economics gives to libertarian/liberal 
> economics. The libertarian/liberal position is that governments do all sorts 
> of things that are not ethical...
>
> Wolfe is making the L/L argument.
>
> I'm grateful for this discussion, because when I read tDiaF I thought it was 
> just a quaint, but obvious, morality tale. Now, I realize that it isn't so 
> "on the nose" at all. It's actually a quite exquisite bit of propaganda 
> (unlike say "Atlas Shrugged"). Truly masterful propaganda is one where the 
> audience doesn't realize it's being propagandized.
>
In the same way, I think, that _Short Sun_ shows the shortcomings of the
libertarian/propertarian/frontier mentality, in the absence of some 
higher ethic at work behind it.

David Duffy.