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Quotation of the Day: Auberon Herbert on the Convenient use of Power

I am still reading Auberon Herbert: Selected Writings from a Reluctant Anarchist, in fact I am still in the first essay, The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State, and I am finding a great many passages that will likely make their way here in due time. One aspect I like of this essay is that it was read more

It is Not Just About Voting

It is nice when current events allow you to hammer home a philosophical lesson, in this case, it is the danger of package deals.  By package deals I mean the phrase as Ayn Rand meant it:

[Package-dealing employs] the shabby old gimmick of equating opposites by substituting nonessentials for their essential characteristics, obliterating differences. – “How to Read (and Not to Write), The Ayn Rand Letter, I, 26, 3