Quote and links of the day
January 31, 2009 – 12:26 pm by JohnOn the off-chance that you haven’t read them, I thoroughly enjoyed this critique of Noam Chomsky and other communist idiots and the ensuing discussion of it at Austro-Athenian Empire. Roderick Long’s involvement makes just about everything into a stimulating discussion, if it wasn’t already.
The quote of the day was provided by Joel Schlosberg in a comment in the discussion at Prof. Long’s blag. The quote is by James Herod, in this essay, referring to Noam Chomsky’s government/cage analogy:
There is a terrible assumption buried here, namely that the cage protects the workers from murder. This is glaringly false. Workers are being murdered by the millions all over the world, inside the cage. The anecdote throws up a false image in other ways as well. The predators are not outside the cage, they, and their practices, are the cage. The cage itself is lethal. And when we realize that the cage is as large as the world, and that there is no longer any outside to escape to, then we can see that the only way to keep ourselves from being murdered, or otherwise brutalized and oppressed, is to destroy the cage itself.
