Saturday, January 15, 2005

Nothing to Sell or Spin

Individualism and liberty…

The following words, written by P.J. O’Rourke, were delivered at the Cato Institute, back in 1993.  Richard Nikoley, in a post titled “What’s So Funny?," offers them up as ”...a better manifesto..." for the future path of civilization.  I know the path, do you?

"We have no ideology, no agenda, no catechism, no dialectic, no plan for humanity. We have no “vision thing,” as our ex-president would say, or, as our current president would say, we have no Hillary.

All we have is the belief that people should do what people want to do, unless it causes harm to other people. And that had better be clear and provable harm. No nonsense about second-hand smoke or hurtful, insensitive language, please."

Read O’Rourke’s entire piece at Richard’s.  If you want to, that is.

Posted by John Venlet on 01/15 at 09:37 AM
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