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Don't Surrender Metaphysics
To The Nihilists
by Glenn Woiceshyn
Dear Editor,
Re: "Up, up, up"--Editorial--Sep/29/97--The Ottawa Citizen
It certainly is too soon (much too soon!) to declare victory for capitalism over
statism. We are still being harmed by social/economic ideas and policies (sustained
by the altruistic guise of "helping children and the needy") that punish
ability and stifle productivity; by a public (Progressive) education system designed
to generate ignorant, emotionalistic, unthinking conformists who recite "politically
correct" slogans (such as "Save the Planet") and gravitate into "tribes"
for "identity" and "security"; and by a nihilistic culture that
is funded by government and focused on suffering, insanity, vulgarity, violence,
grotesqueness, sexual perversion and other "existentialist" obsessions.
Meanwhile, modern liberals are continuously inventing new ways to loot, rule and
nauseate us. Environmentalists (such as Maurice Strong) and other statists are pushing
for a one-world state via the United Nations, to impose modern liberalism on the
world. [For details, see the article by Ronald Bailey in National Review , Sept.
1, 1997, but please don't take this as an endorsement of the National Review.] Governments
are ominously increasing their control over gun ownership, tobacco, television content,
etc., on the paternalistic premise that all adults are helpless children who can't
be trusted with anything unhealthy or "dangerous." (As if statism isn't
dangerous!)
There is lots to do before uncorking the victory champagne.
Your editorial implied that when (and if) statism is dead, and a new Renaissance
is upon us, editorial writers will have nothing to write about. My God! Aside from
the fact that complacency breeds decay, and that there will always be power lusters
pushing new schemes, what about editorials that focus on the positive? Have we surrendered
metaphysics to the existentialists and nihilists? Have we become so saturated by
negatives (and zeroes) that the positive seems unreal, unimportant, uninteresting?
I hope not.
Sincerely,
Glenn Woiceshyn
© 1997 Glenn Woiceshyn. All rights reserved.
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