1. Batman is a Burkean.
Indeed.
Wisconsin native. "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."--GKC "Liberalism is the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal" --G K Chesterton "The only objective of Liberty is Life" --G K Chesterton "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition." -- Rudyard Kipling
Monday, August 06, 2012
Burke Rises
The latest Batman movie has a surprise for the Left-O-Wackies:
Bane’s desolate and ravaged Gotham, which Nolan portrays as the natural endpoint of an Occupy Wall Street-style uprising, is really just a dictatorship that pretends to be a people’s government, and The Dark Knight Rises is a ferocious rebuke to “leaders” who claim that popular backing and concern for the downtrodden justifies their seizing ever more power for themselves. Batman understands that, in the words of his fellow conservative Edmund Burke, “it is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.”
Indeed.
Indeed.
“it is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.”
ReplyDeleteAs demonstrated also by the Tea Party folks disrupting the Town Hall meetings in August of 2009.
TO: Jim:
ReplyDeleteOr you.