Holiday A Parody 3 comments

4 Jul 2008 @ 16:19, by Max Sandor stumbled across an excellent article Lew Rockwells cool site [link] Below saves me writing myself, good grief, my thoughts exactly.. Unfortunately, this craziness is not limited to the US, it existed and exists throughout the world, wherever crazy men congregate to rule over others... But there it is: "A Fresh Look at Holidays" by Butler Shaffer I have long been a critic of the state’s co-option of holidays to serve governmental purposes, thus negating the messages these holidays originally served. July 4th – designed to celebrate independence from the state – has been refashioned as a holiday for revelling in the state’s favorite activity, war. Television treats us to a seemingly endless supply of John Wayne films, urging us to embrace the contradictory idea that submitting ourselves to increased state power is the way to promote our liberty! It is such twisted thinking that leads those who refuse to examine the content of their minds to bleat about the soldiers who "fight for our freedom." What nonsense. Shall we next be told that Sunset Boulevard hookers are peddling virtue? Just how far we have contorted our thinking about "independence day" is reflected in most people’s thinking about fireworks. Like private gun-ownership, our personal use of fireworks represents too much power in the hands of individuals. And so, we confine ourselves to the absurdity of having the state celebrate our liberty and independence for us!@ [end of quote] see the full article here [link]

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