By way of christening his new blog, Todd Seavey threads together
three seemingly disparate elements--his life, his parents' dog's
life and the qualified triumph of laissez-faire--into a pretty well
complete whole. A sample:
I was born in 1969, during Woodstock. From that point until
about twenty years later, Reagan's election notwithstanding, I'd
say the left was in the ascendant in Western civilization, but on
April Fool's Day in 1989, according to the official records at the
pound, my parents' dog Uber was born (named by me after Nietzsche's
ubermensch, since I was in a sophomore philosophy class at the time
and considered the dog "beyond good and evil" - possessed of a
great, playful personality, though not very rules-conscious). From
Uber's birth onward, coincidentally or not, it was all downhill for
communism and not a bad time for globalism, neoliberalism,
neoconservatism, and the spread of libertarian ideas, if not
exactly for full-fledged laissez-faire policies (a sort of
leveling-off of government growth rather than a radical reversal of
it).
The rest.
topics:
Communism, Conservatism, Neoconservatism
