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A peek at the crystal ball that is none to comforting

         England's cultural and governmental decline often makes me uneasy because of the similarities between us. These two graphs from former BBC producer Antony Jay are a succinct warning of what I fear for the United States.

Media liberal pressure has prompted a stream of laws, regulations and directives to champion the criminal against the police, the child against the school, the patient against the hospital, the employee against the company, the soldier against the army, the borrower against the bank, the convict against the prison - there is a new case in the papers almost every day, and each victory is a small erosion of the efficiency and effectiveness of the institution.

I can now see that my old BBC media liberalism was not a basis for government. It was an ideology of opposition, valuable for restraining the excesses of institutions and campaigning against the abuses of authority but it was not a way of actually running anything. It serves a vital function when government is dictatorial and oppressive, but when government is ineffective and over-permissive it is hopelessly inappropriate.

        Tear down the institutions you find oppressive here all you like. Just be sure you have some sort of replacement system in mind that has a chance in hell of succeeding. For when the smoke clears and the rubble of our society is revealed, we still need to be able to function as a society. Anarchy is a great theory that is easily destroyed by the addition of human nature.

(h/t Stephen Spruiell vie Media Blog)

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