My toon in World of Warcraft took a beating yesterday as I was questing in Tanaris, but I busted through level 48, almost to 49, and moved on to Feralas for awhile. Killing Naga there, who are almost as annoying as Murlocs but they have a little more personality.
You know what else is taking a beating? Any sense of historical decency in this article entitled, “The disintegration of the welfare state” by Neil Reynolds:
Democracies produced Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, fulfilling the expectation of Socrates and Machiavelli that democracies end in tyranny. Now democracies are fulfilling the complementary expectation of Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman that democracies end in bankruptcy.
It wasn’t democracy that produced National Socialism or Italian Fascism, they derived from socialism, although they evolved under a democratic system, because that system allowed the free exchange of ideas and associations, and it won’t be democracy that drives the world into bankruptcy. It will be bureaucracies, overly generous social welfare plans (a point Reynolds gets right) and the growing desire to suppress the free enterprise system.
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