Alarmist Posters @ USMB and HL Mencken
Libertarians here and elsewhere claim to admire Henry and claim him as one of their own. What they lack is amusing. Mencken spoke about "the race of viewers-with-alarm" and this was in the context of laughing at world.
"We live in a land of abounding quackeries, and if we do not learn how to laugh we succumb to the melancholy disease which afflicts the race of viewers-with-alarm... In no other country known to me is life as safe and agreeable, taking one day with another, as it is in These States. Even in a great Depression few if any starve, and even in a great war the number who suffer by it is vastly surpassed by the number who fatten on it and enjoy it. Thus my view of my country is predominantly tolerant and amiable. I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind."
How many of the alarmist rants of today's libertarians get it?
Libertarianism today suffers from the melancholy disease and alarmist imbecilities
Libertarians here and elsewhere claim to admire Henry and claim him as one of their own. What they lack is amusing. Mencken spoke about "the race of viewers-with-alarm" and this was in the context of laughing at world.
"We live in a land of abounding quackeries, and if we do not learn how to laugh we succumb to the melancholy disease which afflicts the race of viewers-with-alarm... In no other country known to me is life as safe and agreeable, taking one day with another, as it is in These States. Even in a great Depression few if any starve, and even in a great war the number who suffer by it is vastly surpassed by the number who fatten on it and enjoy it. Thus my view of my country is predominantly tolerant and amiable. I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind."
How many of the alarmist rants of today's libertarians get it?
Libertarianism today suffers from the melancholy disease and alarmist imbecilities
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