AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

09/12/05

It's sickening, really, to contemplate the supreme arrogance of the neocons, as they berate the American people for not being virtuous enough to turn themselves into government-directed automatons. If I were Kaplan, I wouldn't obsess over this so-called shortcoming, and I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the trend to reverse itself, either, because it'll be a cold day in Hell before that happens -- and thank the gods for that. Americans are an ornery, cantankerous, individualist lot, and always have been. What Kaplan and his ilk describe as the 'degradation' of American life -- the desire, and, yes, the determination to be happy, and find individual self-fulfillment, and to hell with the myth of collective 'goals' and 'national purpose' -- is, in reality, their greatest virtue...

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