Friday 22 January 2010

Thatcher's Children

Keep saying it, keep saying it: "cannabis and pornography are harmless, cannabis and pornography are harmless".

Keep saying it, but it will never be true.

What's that? The parents should have kept these things away from the children? Indeed, they should have done. But they themselves hardly appear to have been done no damage.

There cannot be a "free" market generally but not in, among other things, drugs and pornography. Therefore, there must not be a "free" market at all. This whole case represents the coming together of that morally, socially, culturally and economically ruinous system with the massively increased welfare dependency that it created in the 1980s, also the decade in which the moral chaos of the 1968 students was unleashed on the population at large.

2 comments:

  1. Good points. When one takes "free" market logic to its ultimate conclusion, you often get very awful results. Amintore Fanfani was right when he saw communism and capitalism as being similar, in that both systems seek the total economic rationalization of life. In both systems, all aspects of human life are subjugated to purely economic criteria. The real adversary to both communism and capitalism would be a system that placed other criteria above economics.

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  2. I'm unaware that anybody with an IQ of more than 20 supposes that cannabis and pornography are harmless.

    What many conservatives do query is the right of an already power-mad, Orwellian government like Blair's, Brown's, and Cameron's - a government, that is, which would be perfectly capable of fitting up innocent people like Mr Lindsay on utterly fraudulent drug and porno charges - to be given still more tyrannical powers through the prohibition of such things.

    Surely Mr Lindsay can see the difference?

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