tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1531304537544244426.post5248238856854496589..comments2023-12-22T21:41:23.856-08:00Comments on Failed Hermit: WHISTLING IN THE DARK AND CALLING IT DAWNkencravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11509434343829971383noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1531304537544244426.post-18228703061898899992011-11-05T16:05:30.376-07:002011-11-05T16:05:30.376-07:00Mr. Craven, have you read John Medaille?
http://w...Mr. Craven, have you read John Medaille? <br />http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2011/07/will-there-be-zombies/<br />You are right of course, they are not calling for Chesterton's distributism. Also useful to you may be James Burnham's work: <br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Thoughts_on_James_Burnham<br />Not sure if Orwell understood him as being in favor of this. <br />Keep up the great work!Matthew C Smallwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08234878138545287306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1531304537544244426.post-28897841261144714122011-11-01T07:39:47.781-07:002011-11-01T07:39:47.781-07:00I don't think the committee read their own fin...I don't think the committee read their own final document because like you say it's contradictory. For example: "According to the logic of subsidiarity, the higher Authority offers its subsidium, that is, its aid, only when individual, social or financial actors are intrinsically deficient in capacity, or cannot manage by themselves to do what is required of them."<br /><br />All well and good, but which of the problems they point out at the start are improved by a World Bank that is running the entire show? Especially one that has nothing stopping it from printing money and inflating us into poverty (as they correctly condemn in the introduction)?<br /><br />"What is valid on the national level is also valid on the global level. A person is not made to serve authority unconditionally. Rather, it is the task of authority to be at the service of the person, consistent with the pre-eminent value of human dignity. Likewise, governments should not serve the world Authority unconditionally."<br /><br />The UN and every other country in the world today does this how? The statement itself is quite true and very good...but the PCJP just assumes that magically we'll wake up tomorrow in the Age of Aquarius or something, I guess.<br /><br /><br />The document could have been a very good thing, but surprise surprise it's so wishy-washy and non-offensive that it says nothing.Bsdouglasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07396844413920051477noreply@blogger.com