Sunday, April 27, 2003

Caleb Responds to H. L. Mencken

Caleb has some comments on the Mencken Quote presented yesterday. Enjoy.

If we use education to reduce all citizenry to controllable norms and other governments use ignorance to keep the people from learning enough to know that maybe life could be better, and other governments use religion as a method of enforcing a whimsical detachment in their people then maybe people are just easily controlled, unoriginal, slobs for whom detached malcontent is the norm, and the governments no matter how much they plot and connive to keep people under their boot are nearly assuming an unoriginal, outdated, worldview that profits them nothing. Are then all social programs similarly useless ways of placating the already sedentary, and uncaring masses?

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